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We visited Lindisfarne every summer with my grandparents. We liked the race across the causeway. Granny never studied the tidal times and we were nearly caught out a few times.

My sister was annoying, always wanting this or that. One day we were alone on the beach when she grabbed my drink.

I pushed her back, right into the quicksand.

She panicked and flapped and bellowed and went down fast.

There were warning signs everywhere so I knew but didn’t care, and I told granny it was an accident.

The shifting sands of Lindisfarne covered many secrets.

They still do.

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