The Bay

Rory should have learned to swim when he was young. His father had told him that swimming could save a man's life, and now he was throwing up a stomach full of water after being pulled from the bay. He could barely catch his breath between the retching. He gasped for air and threw up forcefully again while his rescuers backed away from him for a moment before covering him with more blankets and shoving hot water bottles around him to get him warm.