This next one was originally written for Jim Inzero‘s art show, but realizing now that it blends the passions that fuel my fiction and my Beach, Break and Brew series.

The swell rose from the southeast and July waves crashed at his shoulders. A brilliant sun poked up from behind the horizon, and he stood on his board and paddled. Staring at the new day, a set rolled through, and he turned and dug hard toward the shoreline. He careened across the face of the wave and felt the ocean’s pulse beneath his feet and for a moment, his mind cleared.