Sea Change

by Bill Millar

The fisherman promised to show her his creels. The boy pleaded to come too. The first contained a large fish which lay there flapping, dying. The boy wept for it to be returned to the water. The fisherman looked bemused, the boy’s mother, unamused. Many years later the boy realized that without her presence, the fish might have lived.

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Bill Millar is bioless.