tag:dreamwidth.org,2025-08-03:4238967 Writing the Found Life Lydia 2025-08-03T10:04:32Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2025-08-03:4238967:986 2025-08-03T10:02:15Z 2025-08-03T10:04:32Z Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend public 0 <img src="https://betweenbranches.dreamwidth.org/file/200x200/502.png" align="left" alt="" /><p data-start="1861" data-end="1975">It was tucked between two battered travel guides &mdash; <em data-start="1912" data-end="1933">Europe on &pound;10 a Day</em> (1974) and a dog-eared <em data-start="1957" data-end="1972">AA Road Atlas</em>.</p> <p data-start="1977" data-end="2244">A square photograph, sun-faded at the edges: a family of four at the seaside, the father in dark sunglasses, the mother in a floral dress, two children squinting into the light. Behind them, a strip of grey-blue sea and a row of beach huts painted in candy colours.</p> <p data-start="2246" data-end="2319">No names, no date. Only the glossy surface and the faint smell of dust.</p> <p data-start="2321" data-end="2442">I bought it for 50p and carried it home in the pocket of my raincoat. Now it sits propped on my desk, watching me work.</p> <p data-start="2444" data-end="2588">I don&rsquo;t know who they are. But I think the boy might have grown up to become a painter, and the girl perhaps writes postcards she never sends.</p> <p data-start="2590" data-end="2625">What do you think their story is?</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=betweenbranches&ditemid=986" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments