As Carl finishes raking, moving on to the next beach along the coast, Max recalls the accident again. This happens almost every day. Sometimes three times a day; something he cannot control.
Last summer. August. Evening…
A storm blows in: oversized blue-black clouds, high winds, sunless. The beach is empty of swimmers, vacationers, and everyday visitors except for one man. Max becomes a scientist and watches the man. It’s what he does for a living: watching men and women and children on the beach. Creating safety. A lifeguard isn’t anything but a babysitter.
Max places the man on the beach at thirty-something, trim, handsome with brown eyes and hair, golden-brown skin, barefoot, and well-built. The stranger wears a bright red swimsuit that looks like a pair of boxer-briefs: snug against his buttocks, tight against his mound of balls and cock; the material leaves nothing to Max’s imagination, attractive