Day after day the boy returns to the lake; his path of least resistance. Slipping through the net, he is like water, seeking his own level.
He stands on the shore and stares out across the shimmering expanse, overhung by thick boughs that boast and beckon a better vantage, but he only searches inside himself.
Each day, he mourns his own image and wades in after it until the water closes over, letting his life drift in the deep like a lure, waiting for something.
His persistence is a poem, an elegy for a twin. And though he has almost drowned in these waters, each day he casts back into the darkness, hoping for a second chance. And yet, whatever nearly took his bait that day now knows he is there.
One day he will realise he will need to find another way to say goodbye.
Ahaa Jan is a freelance writer with a degree in Theoretical Chemistry. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Zeroflash, Literary Orphans and the 2016 Bath Flash Fiction Award anthology.
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