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Jon's Last Swim

by @grandwalnut
1 chapters
~3 min read

Jon’s last swim was supposed to be a final, defiant act before his terminal diagnosis took hold. But the ocean doesn't grant quiet endings, and the thing that brushes against his leg in the deep water has a different fate in mind.

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MEET THE CHARACTERS

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Jon Everett

A man in his late twenties with sun-bleached streaks in his brown hair and the kind of quiet, watchful stillness that comes from being alone with your thoughts for too long. He came to the beach not to swim, but to stand at the edge of the water, his bare feet sinking into the wet sand as if trying to anchor himself to something solid.

EXPLORE CHAPTERS

1

The Pull of Deep Water

The sand was cold and heavy under his feet. Jon stood at the edge, the Atlantic breathing in and out, in and out, a rhythm his own chest had forgotten. He wasn't here to swim. He was here to meet the gray, endless quiet. The first step into the surf was a shock—a thousand icy needles up his calves, a feeling so sharp and real it was almost a relief. His body screamed to retreat, but the deeper, colder part of him leaned forward, into the pull.