I am visiting my mom in my hometown and I go down to the beach to take a walk, I haven’t been there in ages. I actually love to go the beach in the offseason, the water is cleaner, there’s nobody there, it’s peaceful.
Just as I am starting to head back into town I spot a message in a bottle just sitting there on the shoreline, half buried in the sand.
I think what the hell but of course I pick it up, there’s a little shred of yellowing paper inside with just four words on it: