A limitless gift
The only restriction on entries to the 55th Anniversary Easy Reader Writing and Photography Contest was that the subjects had to be local. Judging from the submissions, the restriction was a blessing. Or, as Orson Welles said, The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
Two stories are about the family’s beach cottage. Two stories are about the beach cottage that became Uncle Bill’s Pancake House. Two stories are about immigrants – an Italian painter whose studio is The Strand and a Greek immigrant who ran barefoot on the Mira Costa High cross country team.
There is fiction in the beach noir style of Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice,” and reporting on the impact of income inequality at Redondo Beach Union High.
There are two photos of peregrines, and photos of volleyball, surf, paddling, marine life, pier and sunsets.
The restriction to the Beach Cities seems like no restriction at all. They show where we live is a limitless gift.
-Kevin Cody, Publisher
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