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AUGUST TCSD RACE CALENDAR Aquathlon August 10, Thursday Location: La Jolla Shores Check in 5pm Start at 6pm Format: 100m/5k
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quietly in she watched large, plunging groups. The seabirds breakers crash on the beach, were so brazen and used to Susana knew she wouldn’t join Tom and humans that they hardly moved a few of their friends to practice surf out of the way. Susana passed a sideentries and open-water swimming. She walk café where gulls and had swum once at this beach under simsongbirds vied for crumbs. ilar conditions. The surf had tumbled her One gull boldly waddled as if she were in an industrial inside the café, hopped onto washer, and then had a table, and swiped the smashed her face into remains of a sandwich a diner the sand. The oozing had left. She saw another gull walk into a abrasion on her snack shop and grab a small bag of chips from mouth and chin a rack before strutting outside to the boardlooked like walk to peck it open. s o m e tropical disease. Besides, once she was past the surf, she’d be drinking A Tale of fiction by Barbara Javor too much seawater Susana returned to Tom’s van in the parking lot while plowing to change from flip-flops to shoes for a longer through the large walk. She reached into her bag and dug out the swells whipped by the keys she kept on a clip with a large, red, hairbreeze. “No thanks, guys. I’ll take a walk and hold band. After opening the door she laid the keys on the back bumper and grabbed her shoes to put onto your car keys if you’d like.” It used to be safe to leave belongings on this them on outside the vehicle. Tom used the van beach while in the water, but recently a spate of for his contractor business, and Susana was carethefts from unguarded towels and bags had made ful to avoid bringing sand inside. As she leaned against the side of the van, a family in a neighswimmers and surfers wary. Susana strolled along the boardwalk with boring parking space was preparing to leave. A dozens of walkers and joggers interspersed with toddler eating a cookie in a red plastic wrapper seagulls that were foraging for picnic leftovers stood entranced by a seagull that had while squawking at each other. Other gulls stood continued on page 21
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