Taking on Water by David Rawding

Author:David Rawding [Rawding, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-08-17T22:00:00+00:00

On the beach, head-high piles of debris, mostly filled with lobster traps, were stacked like unlit bonfires. James squinted, searching the colored buoys twisted among the crushed black, green, and yellow traps.

Coming up to the next beach, he spied Tucker’s truck sitting alone in the parking lot. James parked and walked to the top of the small rise of sand overlooking the beach. Standing amid the knee-high beach grass and clumps of crushed weeds, James scanned the beach. The waves were much tamer here; no surfers bothered with them. Seagulls strutted like wind-up toys, leaving trails of webbed footprints that were washed away with each passing wave. The birds stopped only to crane their necks and cry out at the sky. James couldn’t overlook the mountain of traps that had been dragged out of the sea and left in the dry, gray sand just beyond the high tide mark.

Then there was Tucker, sitting alone in the damp sand, a stone’s throw from the waves, staring at the ocean.

James’s black leather shoes sank three quarters of an inch into the soft, shifting sand with each step; his pant legs pulled tight at the knees. His tie, blown by the wind, flopped like a fish out of water. He brushed his hand to settle his tie as a rush of air tossed sand against his shirt and through his black hair, which was growing shaggy and steadily trying to invade his ears. As James passed the tangle of metal cages, he couldn’t look away from the painted buoys amid the tangle of ruined traps. Most were blue and white, Tucker’s colors.

Tucker’s powerful shoulders were sunken forward.

James cleared his throat and swung around wide to see his face. “Hey” was all he could think to say.

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