R.E. Donald

Five fifty-four a.m. Lying on her stomach, feeling a weight in the hollow behind her knees, Elspeth Watson pulled the sheet over her head and burrowed under the spongy pillow. Her first vacation in six years and her goddamn internal alarm clock wouldn’t let her sleep past six a.m. Against her will, she began to count the dull booms of the surf.

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