The Short History of Tides

Fourteen year old Michelle's most intimate secret is about to be revealed. Instead of waiting for that moment, she decides to take the hero's journey up A1A trying to find the words for her falling apart world. Working her way north on Florida's A1A, she meets saviors, criminals, kidnappers, treasure hunters, hippies, fishermen, ghosts and ultimately a solution to a question of love and her place in history. From sand dune to fort to tourists to tides, Michelle walks her walk and rewrites her place in Florida's history. This short fiction is a bit of young girl Hiassen, Sebold's Lovely Bones, Hoffman's Blue Diary with a touch of a Harry Crews whiskey shot in the back corner of a bar now resting under the soul erasing wall of Cinnamon Beach.