#71
The sand slithered between the stubby chubby baby toes. | Feeling the warm, grainy pleasure, the toes wiggled, and the baby giggled, a carefree burst of sound heard only by itself. | Then suddenly, silence. Waves and sun, nothing else. Suddenly | an eely egret with beak bursting full of deep-sea delights dropped a dollop of jellyfish just beyond the baby's reach. | The jellyfish jiggled in the wind like the baby's mother's teat. It turned slowly onto its belly and cooed. It opened and closed its mouth repeatedly, smacking at the saliva oozing into its eager, expectant mouth.
