Move in Ready
100-word story inspired by day 22 of AWC's June Story Seeds: Write about a character who builds something; it can be big or small.
A frigid beach, blessedly empty. Cammie finishes the parapet of a sprawling complex.
“Want me to take a picture?” Emile asks.
“No, sand crabs like privacy.”
“The tide will wash it away anyways.”
“There’s a wall.”
Emile eyes the waves, steadily rising for the past hour. “Okay, then we gotta go now - dinnertime.”
“Bye,” Cammie says to the castle. They leave.
The sun’s down. Crabs wiggle out of the sand and troop over the driftwood bridge, burrow into the walls, the castle. It glows. The first waves hit. Water fills the moat, crashes into the wall, splits. Leaves it untouched.