Is he going in, surely not…
Yes he is, fully clothed.
Should I do something?
I can’t stop him, I can only watch helplessly from the cliff top.
There’s no one else around in this awful weather and the rain beating against my face makes it impossible to see him properly now.
Impossible to see if the man now being knocked over by the diagonal waves is trying to retreat back to the shore or allowing himself to be taken.
I came out without my phone, to escape from technology, to drown my worries in the storm. Has the man out there chosen a more drastic way to drown his thoughts?
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I am very glad this is fiction!
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Yes so am I Liz, flash fiction lets you put people in situations you don’t have to solve.
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Oooh, you left us on such a cliff hanger, Janet.
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Just what I like to do Robbie – see the comment to Liz above!
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‘Can you describe the man, madam?’
‘Well, it was hard to tell from this distance, Constable, but ….’
Clever piece.
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Thanks Doug, it started as a writing exercise at writers’ group on Wednesday.
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This reminded me a little of Stevie Smith’s poem, ‘Not Waving, But Drowning’. I don’t know if you know it, Janet, but here’s a link anyway.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes Pete I did think of that poem when I was choosing a title! Now they say that drowning people don’t wave in real life.
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I drowned and was resuscitated when I was a child. I definitely didn’t wave.
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Well Pete, real life is far more exciting than fiction. Made my blood run cold to read that! BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live 9am has a segment where listeners can recount their tales and thank someone they could not thank at the time, but it would be unlikely your angler would be still around and listening at the right moment!
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