title: down on the shore
author: cridecoeur
rating: g for valiant octopuses
word count: 544
a/n: a story about mothers for mothers day. actually when I started writing it that was not even my intention. but that is what it turned into so! also I was reading James Kelman before I wrote this, so, uh, blame him for this? also this is the shortest short story I have ever written. go me?

( I saw octopus on the shore after a violent spring storm and though of my mother... )