A SHORT STORY Summer in Paradise

By Talitha Linehan

THE PEOPLE IN INSTAGRAM ALWAYS LOOKED SO elegant. She knew she looked like a clown. It was embarrassing. I don’t know why you have to go all the way to1 Hawaii,” Caoimhe’s dad said, for what seemed like the hundredth time. “Don’t you live a mile from…” “…the most beautiful beach in Ireland?” Caoimhe finished his phrase for him. “I know, Dad! But this is Ireland, where we had the rainiest July on record last year. I don’t want to risk that again.” Last summer had been Caoimhe’s first summer since completing secondary school. And she had spent all of July at home, feeling depressed because of the constant rain. Now she had finished her first year at university, and had been working part-time2 to save enough money for a…

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