pub chat

‘So.’
‘Yeah.’
‘So what’d she say?’
‘She said she’d think about it.’
He drank his pint and fiddled with the beer mat, spinning it on its corner. Everyone else’s eyes were stuck to the television. It was some manner of football final, he thought.
She didn’t touch her beer. Her hands lay on the table, her long fingers splayed [...]

rise

He wiggled his toes in the sand, felt the chill as the water seeped up through it. It made his bones cold, his flesh numb. He stayed.
The gulls slept in the nooks of the cliffs above. He sank in the wet sand and the tide approached until it rushed around his shins. His legs [...]