Love at First Catch

by Melanie Dusseau from the June 5, 2023 issue

Tagline: Heading to her family cabin for a long weekend, Liz sets out to fish on the lake...and reels in more than she bargained for when Bob comes along.

Observations: This story was a big bold splash of summer.  It was as if Dusseau brainstormed summer and put everything she wrote down into this story. There's the fishing and the cabin on the lake. She also repeated a sun motif throughout.

Suddenly, the fish surfaced, thrashing in a spill of sunlight by the dock.

She squinted into the sun at the sigh of an approaching boat.

The man stepped sure-footedly onto the dock, the sun lighting a glimmer in his blue eyes.

They stood on the edge of the dock grinning--like the children they once were--there in the rainbow made by sun and oil glinting off the water's reflection.

If you didn't finish this story yearning for all the joys of the summer season, you need to read the story again!

Photo by Michael Seeley via the Flickr Creative Commons License