Beachside: Bunnies

“I’d like that,” she said.

“I thought we could go to the beach today,” her mother said. “Together.” beachside bunnies

“Oh,” she whispered. “Oh, buddy.” “I’d like that,” she said

When she finished, she tore out the page and left it weighted with a shell. “I’d like that

“There’s a rabbit in the bathroom,” her mother said.

The rabbit twitched its nose.

She left a drawing on the driftwood—not of Captain, but of all of them together, a crowd of small shapes against a big sky. And this time, instead of a shell, she weighted it with a scrap of paper that said, Thank you .