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He’d like to reach out, touch her swollen belly to feel what it is like, sense the baby swimming inside her, curling and kicking in the warm fluid. He can see her belly-button sticking out through her costume. One of the women is clearly pregnant, her gravid body waggling awkwardly. He slides beneath the water and hears their voices come to him as dolphin sounds, and imagines himself as the alpha male of the pod, and that all these females are his.
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Don tries to dismiss the hidden factors, the numbers that don’t show on his face, and, unlike Marjorie who is lined and grey, he reckons he looks pretty much as he did fifteen or twenty years ago.ĭon swims amongst the chattering women, their high voices echoing in the air around him. Sinister little faults waiting to tip a man out of his mortal coil and toss him into the grave. The doctor said that it was not always related to weight or diet but to inherent predispositions. The high figure of his cholesterol reading does not make sense to him. He is sure that he looks much younger than sixty-three. She is a strange, rubbery fish.ĭon has always been thin he reckons that he is naturally fit, despite his smoking habit. Now, all that can be seen of her is her wrinkled blue hat crowning her pinched face, and the red outline of her mouth. Once, her body had a sweet appley roundness that buoyed her in the water when she swam. She is so thin that the flesh hangs from her bones. Ever since her operation she’s had them on low-fat this and low-salt that all she eats is salad and raw vegetables. Marjorie is always telling him that he must look after his health. Her mouth still has a trace of lipstick, a thin line of red that stretches like an elastic band as she takes in air. He slides quietly in amongst the shoals of women when there’s a space, and pushes off from the side, crossing with Marjorie as she completes yet another length. He slaps his thighs, as if to make some monumental leap into the water, but the pool is crowded. Her stroke reminds him of needlework-tuck and stitch, tuck and stitch. Marjorie is coming toward him, her blue hat a warning beacon. The woman dives elegantly over her partner, entering the water with barely a splash. He stands taller, holding in his stomach.
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Don fancies that she could be watching him through the dark lenses. He admires the one standing in the deep end-sleek and muscular in her seal-dark costume, grey goggles hiding her eyes. Or is it to do with temperature? Males need more warmth, but maybe that’s crocodiles….He imagines Marjorie pulling him into the chilly water.Īt the far side of the pool, in a roped-off lane, two women practice relay exchanges. He remembers vaguely that certain species of fish can turn from male to female as they mature. The place is swarming with women, as if women are the only sex on the planet, and he is a freak of nature. Marjorie tells him all the time that if he didn’t shilly-shally getting in he’d warm up sooner. They could be sitting in front of the fire at home with a hot drink and a sandwich, but Marjorie insisted on going to Tuesday swimming straight after her appointment. Overhead, through the glass roof, he can see hail stones falling, like the reverse of a water-ball snow storm. Don is standing at the shallow end, rubbing his hands over his chest and shoulders to keep warm. She repeats her stroke like a mechanical doll. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Marjorie swims, her blue hat bobbing like a child’s ball.
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