I've tried many times, but my writing isn't strong enough to finish this at my current level. I won't abandon it, though. One day, I'll come back to it. (Crying noodles.) For now, I'm changing the blurb.
A poor artist with ALS, the one being x a successful man in a period of uncertainty, the one pursuing
*The brilliance lasted only a moment, helplessly brief
The day he made a bet with his friend, he sat by the sea in a fishing village, watching the moon. His solitary silhouette vanished into the ceaseless tide. At 11:07 p.m., he checked his watch, then walked into the sea and saved someone.
His digital watch was waterlogged. The seabed was strewn with rocks, and beneath the glass face, battered and rough, the hands had stopped.
11:13 p.m.
It took him five minutes to wade into the sea and bring the drowning man back to shore. He had one minute left. He sat quietly on the beach, wondering whether he should save this man.
Later, he gave his car to the man he'd saved.
"I can give you a lot of things. How about letting me ride with you?"
He said, "I don't give people rides."
He saw that man again in a narrow, crowded alley far from anywhere.
He'd clearly checked his watch, but time never went back to 11:07.
Only when he got home that night did he realize his watch was a minute fast.
Theme: Cherish life, and let true love last forever
