Beach Portrait Story III
Every morning Rex woke with the sun and swam to the channel marker and back...
The house rental touted that it had “amazing water views with nothing but serenity,” and Rex hit the Book It button without reading anything else in the description. All he wanted was quiet. Quiet from work, quiet from the emails-news-noise of life. He just needed to get back to a place where he could think quietly and remember who he used to be.
Every morning Rex woke with the sun and swam to the channel marker and back; he read a book cover to cover that had been waiting on his nightstand for over two years, and every afternoon he walked to the local market and grabbed a few items to make himself a simple dinner.
With his breath calm again and his bag on the backseat of his idling car, he pulled the curled notepad out of the junk drawer and wrote the homeowner a simple thank you signing his name. He paused, and almost as if the pen was writing on its own, the tip of the pen reached back down to the paper and added, “p.s. please let me know if you ever wish to sell your beautiful home; I would like to live here forever.”
See you next Tuesday for Beach Portrait Story IV. Just joining us? Learn about our July collaboration of Beach Portraits + Short Stories here.
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