Cycling
for Happiness
steve coel
In all fairness she'd expected the water to be pretty cold.
After all, it was November and the summer hadn't been
anything like she had hoped and she knew well enough that
what her family really needed was to get some sun on their
bones.
anything like she had hoped and she knew well enough that
what her family really needed was to get some sun on their
bones.
But there you go, what you gonna do about it?
So, even being short of money and that, she'd taken them
all away for the weekend for a treat, the break she
reckoned would do them all a bit of good.
Houses were mostly boarded up it being out of season but
she had managed to book them into a side street B and B.
Thing is the rides on the front were all boarded up for
the winter too.
As a result the kids were generally pretty miserable,
but they say that a change of scenery can put a lot of
other things in the shade.
So they say.
Like i've heard that if a car drives on to your foot
adrenalin gives you the strength to pick the car up so
as how you can move your foot to safety.
adrenalin gives you the strength to pick the car up so
as how you can move your foot to safety.
So I've heard.
Still, no-one's really sure where she got the strength to go
into the water with the kids like that.
Tin Collector [ 2015 ]
An 11.59 Publication
Footnote:
A version / draft of this microflashfiction story appears in the
April 2015 UK Edition of flashfloodjournal.
