A small seaside island, with a cute little town facing the mainland, on the beach the children play, inside the town there is a main street with a horse drawn trolley going up and down it. Every Saturday the ferry takes tourists across the bay to visit the island. Wild flowers grow in the windswept fields that cover the island outside the idealic village, the gulls fly high above
A woman walks down the steps from her little house to buy bread from the local baker, she has a blue sundress on and a basket in her hand, in her pocket sits 25 dollars, her son follows close behind, they catch the trolley which passes their street at 9:17 daily and ride into the town center, after 12 minutes they drink coffee and cocoa in the Cafe across the street from the baker as they wait for him to open his store, the smell of freshly baked bread fills the street.
The woman watches as the baker opens his shop and thanks him for the bread as she pays, getting a cookie for her son as well, they head down to the pier to watch the seals for a bit before walking back home.
As they walk back home, the woman stares off into the sky as she walks, remembering the young girl who used to work in the bakery with the baker, she thinks about her and how she like so many others moved to the city, she wonders what that girls life is like now as she walks, a tear rolls down her face, her son asks "what's wrong" to his mom and she simply wipes the tear away and tells her son that "it's nothing, really" and asks him if they want to stop on the bookshop before going home
The woman now home with fresh bread and 2 books, has locked herself in her basement, she intends to cast a spell to destroy the ferry that goes to the mainland, she has come to fear that her son will take that ferry and leave her when she ages like her lovers before all have
I’m fine but this woman is very much about to destroy the economy of a small seaside town out of fear and an inability to live with change and the fact that she won’t always have her son. She would rather destroy in fear than let the world change and leave her behind