Pip & Dawn

Somewhere between shore and sea.

A.J.Sharpe

  1. Dawn lifts her head and the rise of her back out of the still pool and looks down towards Pip, who stands very small on a flat grey stone at its edge, both quite still.

    Pip & Dawn - Book I

    The Edge of the Water

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  2. Pip stands at the water's edge by his marked reed, having launched a little folded leaf boat, and Dawn watches it come to her across the summer water.

    Pip & Dawn - Book II

    Six Leaf-Lengths

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  3. Pip holds his folded leaf diving bell over his head at the pool’s edge while Dawn rests her chin on the sand beside him, watching.

    Pip & Dawn - Book III

    The Third Breath

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  4. Pip sits alone on the flat grey stone in his scarf beside a marked reed, facing a still grey pool with nobody in it.

    Pip & Dawn - Book IV

    The Quiet Water

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  5. Dawn rises whole in the dusk water at the right while Pip stands at the waterline with a small clear stone between them, fallen russet leaves and the white pebble line on the sand behind him.

    Pip & Dawn - Book V

    Three Tides

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  6. The winter sea stands tall and still while Dawn waits at its foot and Pip faces her from the wet sand, a folded leaf under his arm.

    Pip & Dawn - Book VI

    Where You Breathe

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  7. Pip sits in his scarf on the flat grey stone in the dry hollow, a shell almost his own size held to his head with both arms, the sea a thin line far away.

    Pip & Dawn - Book VII

    The Sound in the Shell

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  8. Pip stands tiny in the thin foam with the small curled shell beside him, below nine sprouting boat hulls in three groups of three, and far out a pale shape rises that could be foam.

    Pip & Dawn - Book VIII

    The Two Shores

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