Daily story, June 28, 2025

In every attic round here there is a pair of skates from when the lake used to freeze. Sometimes they get pulled out and taken to a car boot sale, where some young optimist buys them, and they sit in a bag for a while until they go to live in a new loft. Now they’re building new houses down by the lakeside, and I wonder if there will ever be skates in them.