
How to read tide tables, badly
Anh Phạm has been wrong twice in seventeen years. Both times, he says, the sea was showing off.
Squid seasons, tide tables, and the case for a third coffee — the small things we write down between the sand and the sea.

Five years they were gone. Then last Tuesday at 04:30 the boats came in heavy and the whole beach smelled of ink and salt again.
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Anh Phạm has been wrong twice in seventeen years. Both times, he says, the sea was showing off.

There is morning, and there is mid-morning, and they are not the same country. The third coffee is the border crossing.