What You Find at the Beach
Jamie and me, we’re walking barefoot along the beach. Nobody sticks around after Labor Day, so the beach is empty, just two girls with the wind tangling our hair. We walk towards Dead Man’s Rock. I don’t know if anyone else calls it that, but we do. It’s a big boulder that’s only in the water when the tide’s in. When we were kids, like last summer, we used to climb on it and whoever got to the top first…