![]() ![]() ![]() These people could at any point include beach walkers, friends, family, journalists, world news stations, Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama or Kathy. This gives him loads of time to figure out how to explain to anyone who may be watching him how he got in that position in the first place. In the first, he stays fixed like a statue but with one leg trembling a lot, possibly for hours, days, weeks years. This second option also has two variations. Or Option 2 – he stays precariously near the edge of falling over, locked in a strange position. Option 1 – He falls over, which is nice and easy not too cool but also not too complicated. Tom knows that at times like this he has two choices. One shoe digs deeper into the sand than the other and his leg comes to a dead stop, snapping into a funny shape. The swervy stuff is to avoid treading on them. Tom sometimes pretends that there are so many thoughts crashing around inside his head that some fall out of his ear. The beach is scattered with a lot of stuff – the odd shell, a broken flip flop, frays of seaweed, brightly coloured sweet wrappers (some from very weird and wonderful parts of the world) – but mainly, the beach is scattered with Tom’s thoughts. Tom walks across it in a swervy stumble, his feet changing direction quickly and often to avoid treading on stuff. ![]()
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