Another strong story. I was a little disoriented about some of the optics when the boat tipped over, and wasn't quite sure if the kids were in a separate boat from their father somehow, or if the father had tipped over the boat in which all three of them were situated--but there's great work in conveying that feeling of an unspoken tightrope in a family. The things you don't mention because you'll either subvert the fiction everyone's clinging to as a floaty device or trigger someone's temper.
Alway impressive when a story's built from things unsaid!
Another strong story. I was a little disoriented about some of the optics when the boat tipped over, and wasn't quite sure if the kids were in a separate boat from their father somehow, or if the father had tipped over the boat in which all three of them were situated--but there's great work in conveying that feeling of an unspoken tightrope in a family. The things you don't mention because you'll either subvert the fiction everyone's clinging to as a floaty device or trigger someone's temper.
Alway impressive when a story's built from things unsaid!