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Title: With Cousin Alex in the Waves (Short Story)
Author : Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 323 KB

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My cousin Alex hops to a crouched position on his surfboard and digs an edge in the curl, his left foot back, right forward. I watch him from a place further down the wave. t te stands fully now, a silhouette on a horizon of whites and blues. Sun lights our place in the ocean, but you can see the clouds and the shade they make not too far in either direction. We are in a pocket of light and everything is both muted and shining. The tropical depression, also named Alex, has stalled off the coast twenty or so miles south and east of us. The darkness of those clouds is exhilarating. Curtains of rain tail beneath the mass. The wave grows soft and Alex steers off the back of it, falling in the water oceanward of his board. He climbs on the nine-foot funshape and strokes for deeper water. He ducks under a wave. I look toward the beach and see by the houses that the rip has dragged us a half-mile from our entry point. Another good ride and I'll take to the sand; I'll walk to a place beyond the enclave of our family and enter the ocean again. It has been a good, wild year--a new job, a move to the country--since I last saw the ocean or rode a surfboard, and I intend to surf today until I am too fatigued to see crooked or straight or even see at all.