The skin of the ocean
Document Type
Journal Article
Keywords
[RstdPub], fiction, ocean
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Communications and Arts
Abstract
In the months after he leaves her, after a cyclone hits the coast and rips the coral from the seabed on the outer islands, there is a long period of calm. It's hot. He sits up at night unable to sleep. One midnight, working on the yacht, he drops something precious over the side - a pocket knife with an ivory handle. He leans out and for a moment watches it sink, then dives from the stern, careful not to submerge it further with his body. There is a light current of phosphorescence running through the water. He catches glimpses of the sinking knife...
Access Rights
metadata only record
Comments
Greenhill, S. (2012). The skin of the ocean. Island, 128, 29-41.