Watercolor
by Philip Magdalany

THE STORY: As a spotlight seeks them out, various characters on a beach engage in a series of dialogues: Two young men sit and tell lies together; another couple makes love; two women talk of growing old; and somehow the overtones of their conversations linger and combine.

Gradually the characters encounter one another, each bringing a bit of illumination and consolation to their other, until their conversations blend into a lyrical rumination on life and death, youth and age, and the ineffable joys and sorrows that lie between.