Buoyed

100 Word Story

The wedding was opulent, expensive: Olympia’s ideas, her father’s checkbook.

Now four months later, Olympia had to tell the man who spent six figures on the nuptials that the volatile relationship was over.

Scarlet faced, embarrassed, she explained the situation.

When she finished, her father told her, “My childhood dream was to be a lifeguard at the count…