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Seawater
“Ed, I can't go on.”
“What do you mean, Mel?”
“The water… I can take seawater.”
“Mel, snap out of it. We're in the middle of the desert. We're dying of thirst.”
“No water?… You mean that isn’t the ocean right over there?”
“No, it's the desert. Just sand and more endless sand.”
“No giant waves, huh?”
“Mel, you're hallucinating. You're delirious.”
The sun beat down. Its photons were brutal. The high energy particles must have penetrated Mel's skull.
“No seaweed? No ocean?”
“No, Mel.”
“Thank God… You know, Ed, I always get a little nauseous when I swallow seawater.”
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
Vacation 2250
Still a little queasy, she stepped out of the ‘Beach Hut,’ glad the temporal capsule was not constrained to contemporary hygiene amenities.
Feeling vulnerable in her figure-hugging woollen tank suit – despite built-in modesty shorts – she moved to the water’s edge and marvelled at the carefree gambolling of the beachgoers: naive inhabitants of the Interwar Era, taking time off from the trials of the Great Depression.
Her ocular bioscan implant picked him out from the crowd: Tommy.
She grinned at the one-piece swimsuit her great-grandfather wore.
Translucent seawater free of corrosive algae was an emotional revelation.
She hadn’t expected to cry.
From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid
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