The beach is hot sand and cold water, finding smooth stones with my aunt, watching Lake Michigan roll in and looking for Chicago, lighthouses and sunsets, and “Taps” under a lonely flag.
It was sunny at the beach. My mother couldn’t believe it when I told her. It was all over the news in seconds. The first sunny beach in 50 years. I could hardly believe it myself. Huh. So humanity still had hope after all.
Zoe
The beach was along the Mekong River. When she first started to go there, the beach was a narrow strip, but as the number of mainstream dams increased and the hot season boiled off the river, now the beach was 100 meters wide, and there was a sandbar in the middle of the river.
Chanpheng
He went down to the beach the next morning, trying to clear his head and make sense of the previous night. Did he really do those things? Where did she go? Why isn’t anyone talking about this on social media?
The beach is hot sand and cold water, finding smooth stones with my aunt, watching Lake Michigan roll in and looking for Chicago, lighthouses and sunsets, and “Taps” under a lonely flag.
It was sunny at the beach. My mother couldn’t believe it when I told her. It was all over the news in seconds. The first sunny beach in 50 years. I could hardly believe it myself. Huh. So humanity still had hope after all.
The beach was along the Mekong River. When she first started to go there, the beach was a narrow strip, but as the number of mainstream dams increased and the hot season boiled off the river, now the beach was 100 meters wide, and there was a sandbar in the middle of the river.
He went down to the beach the next morning, trying to clear his head and make sense of the previous night. Did he really do those things? Where did she go? Why isn’t anyone talking about this on social media?