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Waves like White Elephants“Yes, it’s true.”“How do you know?”“I just…do.”“..do you?”She stared at her feet. A passing seagull winked across the fading sun. The wavescrashed on the shore, stretching tendrils out onto the drying sand. Donny tossed apiece of deadwood into the receding water. It was carried out to bobble along,dipping and rolling, until a gull swooped down and pecked at it. With a sharp cry,the bird looped back to its sky patrol.“I can’t stand this,” she said.“What?”“This,” she emphasized the word.“Us? Is this about us?” he asked.“Well, what else? Look at this place, Donny,” she cast her eyes across the beach,“It was supposed to be our holiday. Remember?”He nodded and picked miniscule pieces of sand off of the blanket. “It’s been a goodvacation.”
 
 The young woman laughed, and Donny winced. A wind gust pushed more sandonto the blanket, and he frowned.It was hopeless.“Why does everything have to be so difficult with you?” he asked.“Me?” she looked at him.“You! For Christ’s sake, Mel, can’t you just enjoy it?”“How can you ignore this?”“I’m not ignoring it!”“Right,” she turned away from him, following the gulls again.Donny took in a deep breath and blew it out in a whoosh. He stood and walked afew paces in the sand. Mel watched him, watched the sun on his skin, watched thegulls above the ocean. She tried to make the sky meet the waterline.“I’m still moving back home,” Donny said.His arms were folded. He couldn’t see her, but she nodded. “All right.”He turned around and stuck his hands in his pockets. Mel kept her eyes on thehorizon. “What will you do, now?” Donny asked.“I’ll be all right.”
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