FLASH FICTION

The Lifeguard

A short trip to the beach goes very wrong

Photo by Ryan Parker on Unsplash

They should never have been there, she knew that. But it was a fine warm summer day, and the boy wanted to go down to the ocean with his pail and his shovel, and so what if his father had taken the bodyguards Marco and Nicky to a meeting at the Ministry? The beach was only a few hundred meters away, and they would only be…