Finders, Keepers

I wrote the first draft of this story while I was at a two-week writing workshop on the Oregon Coast, and I was missing my family pretty badly. So I put an alternate-world version of my two boys, years into the future, into this story. I also had a blast writing about the coast and the beach.

This story was first published as part of Free Fiction Friday, UnWrecked Press, December 2011. It was reprinted in UnWrecked Tales, July 2018.  

Finders, Keepers

As far as Mark Rasmussen was concerned, the...