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18 | link: early | 18 | link: early |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | "Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself | 21 | "Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed. |
22 | as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed. He wondered who built the | 22 | He wondered who built the shed for the first time since he'd been going out there. |
23 | shed for the first time since he'd been going out there. "Mom who built the | 23 | "Mom who built the shed out back" he asked. |
24 | shed out back" he asked. "That was your father" she said. | 24 | "That was your father" she said. |
25 | 25 | ||
26 | His father. Paul had never met him. His mother had said when he was a kid | 26 | His father. |
27 | that his father was caught by a riptide while swimming in the ocean. He | 27 | Paul had never met him. |
28 | hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the | 28 | His mother had said when he was a kid that his father was caught by a [riptide][] while swimming in the ocean. |
29 | horizon. He became exhausted swimming back and drowned. His body was found a | 29 | He hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the horizon. |
30 | week later by the coroner's estimate. Paul never really believed this story | 30 | He became exhausted swimming back and drowned. |
31 | because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it. | 31 | His body was found a week later by the coroner's estimate. |
32 | Paul never really believed this story because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it. | ||
32 | 33 | ||
33 | She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike. Paul | 34 | She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike. |
34 | realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out | 35 | Paul realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out at the shed without realizing it. |
35 | at the shed without realizing it. He went out to take an inventory of | 36 | He went out to take an inventory of everything inside. |
36 | everything inside. | ||
37 | 37 | ||
38 | "Where you going" asked his mother. "To the shed. I'll be back in a bit" he | 38 | "Where you going" asked his mother. |
39 | said. | 39 | "To the shed. |
40 | I'll be back in a bit" he said. | ||
41 | |||
42 | [riptide]: riptide_memory.html | ||