The Fatigue Artist by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Author:Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

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“The lighthouse is falling into the sea,” I told Jilly as she came panting toward me. I had driven over, while she chose a three-mile run through the fields and over the dunes.

“What do you mean? It looks perfectly fine to me.”

It was our first full day on the Cape. We stood before the classic lighthouse, white with black trim. Beside it, the red-trimmed lighthouse keeper’s cottage looked the same as when I’d last seen it three summers ago, the same as years ago when I’d first come, its yard still dotted with bicycles and toy cars and trucks as if the children had not aged, or else more children kept being born to inherit them. The only addition was a new red skateboard.

From the high dune we watched the black sea below, “graveyard of ships,” as this patch was called before the lighthouse was built. The sea appeared secretive as befits a graveyard, and nonchalant about its own beauty. A half dozen or so surfers rode the waves, making patterns like a Busby Berkeley musical against the stately dance of ripples and foam.

“It’s not falling right now. It’s moving about three feet closer to the edge each year. Look, it tells you right here. Actually it’s the cliff that’s eroding. The ground is slipping out from under it.”

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