Low Tide

Low tide at the pier. Collect every shell on the sand flats, the rope ladders and the beams, and the exit rope appears. Gulls chase you and pick up shells. You can't fight them, but you can dig a pit in the wet sand beside you: a gull that falls in is stuck, and if the tide fills the pit first, it's washed back to the top. Fall in yourself and you're the one who gets soaked. Twenty beaches, and a new one built from the date every day.