"Life is a beach" drabbles by Neville Hunt

Estuaryella 2 - the return

Life is a beach #2

....Back across the estuary, pretty little Estuaryella was back at work. The dirty old man was rich, with an eye for pretty girls, and one particular pretty girl. He searched the town with gold medallion dangling and glinting in the sun.

He stood at the pontoon waving the pink flipflop in the air, declaring "Whomsoever, this tiny flipflop fits will be my 5th bride!"

The golddiggers of the town lined up to try on the flipflop.

"Not you, not you!", he declared dismissively to the ugly sisters.

Then he spied Estuaryella. "It's YOU!"

"Think again, grandad, this is no fairytale!"

Estuaryella

Life is a beach #1

Scrub, clean, change sheets... life was hard for Estuaryella, a poor girl sent to get houses ready for new visitors. Summer for Estuaryella was grim. While children swam and made sandcastles, her rotten stepmother worked her hard.

During Regatta Fortnight, there was a party on Smalls Cove. Her ugly stepsisters were going, while Estuaryella worked.

Suddenly, 'Zing!', Fairy Godmermaid appeared with pink wetsuit, flipflops and fancy boat to glide Estuaryella to the beach. But at 6pm she had to leave fast due to the rising tide. Finding her left flipflop, a dirty old man thought his luck was in......

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