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Weekly Contest #360
TW: Suicide, death, grief To any passer-by who happened to be walking along Brighton beach on such a drizzly day, the elderly gentleman sitting alone on a bench with a lettuce may have seemed a little odd. Had they paused for a moment they might have thought that the slight figure seemed to be, paradoxically, both over-dressed and under-dressed for such inclement weather. Moving nearer they may have observed that his tweed suit, though clean and pressed, was worn to a shine in places, with fraying cuffs and a clumsily mended tear on the knee...
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