Anne at the Shore by Marc Simon
I was driving home with bags of groceries when I saw Anne Frank hitchhiking. I stopped, and she got in. We drove in silence until I asked, “Where would you like to go?”
She said, “To the sea.”
We reached the beach as the sun was setting. Anne Frank got out and walked to the water’s edge. She opened a plaid notebook and page after page floated out, silver against the darkening sky. She looked skyward with a small, sweet, glowing smile. An ominous cloud blotted out the sun, and then she was gone. All that remained were her black shoes.
I ran after the silver, floating pages, hoping to save them all.
Marc Simon’s short fiction has appeared in over fifteen literary magazines. His debut novel, The Leap Year Boy, was published in December 2012, and his novella, According to Isaac, is available on Amazon.com. His short story, The Violin, has been nominated for Best Short Stories, 2025, and his short story, The Sea of Tranquility, has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2025.
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