100 Word Story

He realised that the final chapter was posing him a dilemma as he looked out across the  beach from his rented cottage.  A month in Cornwall and he had done it: completed the book bar the final chapter, lost seven kilos in weight and given up smoking. But his hero? He had fared well, too: a delicious affair, an escape from the Mafia and forgiveness from his daughter.

A walk along the beach would decide: he pulled on his fisherman’s sweater bought at the street market on his first week-end and stepped out into the cool of the Spring breeze.