Beach Walker: Chapter 24

A Trick of the Light

Steve Fendt

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Wide-angle photo of Ocean Grove beach looking towards Point Lonsdale and the Rip. Sky and clouds reflected in the mirror-like shallows. Surf to the right and in the distance.
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SPOILER ALERT: This is the final chapter of Beach Walker.

Sea Gal whinnies and canters across the paddock to greet us. She’s a pretty chestnut mare, long-legged and gracile. Too delicate and fine-boned to make a champion, or the dam of future champions, she had a bleak future until we took her in.

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Steve Fendt

https://stevefendt.substack.com Short stories, serial fiction, memoirs of a possibly quasi-true nature. Stories of the Australian beach and bush.