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Weekly Contest #373
I have kept the lighthouse for sixty seven years. The world has become softer around the edges. Cooler. The water rushes towards the shore, faster and faster. I change the bulbs. I walk the line where the salt meets the sea. I watch the ships. They come and they go, one at a time, sometimes with weeks between them. Sometimes I don't see a ship for an entire month. I practiced swimming, just in case. I was taught to believe that the lighthouse is the only mooring a ship at sea has. The light to guide you home. To keep you safe from the shor...
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