A fiction piece written in a 10-minute session with the prompt "Tide Pools." They took their children to the tide pools in the hope that they would be distracted, their bare toes dipping into the icy waters as they searched for hermit crabs and sea stars. At first, they just hung around next to their parents on the sand. “Aren’t you coming with us?” “Why don’t you just go with your sister and see what you find?” “But I want you to come with us!” She glanced over at her husband questioningly, but he only met her with a frosty stare. Any decision she would make would clearly be the wrong o...