You are as alive as anybody else right now. Maybe you notice that your bathing suit straps are just a little too tight on your sunburned shoulders or that the sun is too bright in your eyes. Maybe while you're standing there, you're looking at sparkles of white light on dark ocean, wondering if it's worth getting your hair wet again. It's beating when you're sleeping, when you're watching TV, when you're standing at the beach with your toes in the sand. And yet here's your heart, doing its job all the time, one beat after the next, all the way up to three billion. Three billion years, and life itself barely exists. Count back three billion hours, and modern humans don't exist-just wild-eyed cave people, all hairy and grunting. I was thinking about that, trying to imagine a number that large. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. Jellyfish don't even have hearts, of course-no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. Like a ghost heart-a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost has gone to hide. It's their pulse, the way they contract swiftly, then release. It doesn't matter what kind: the blood-red Atolla with its flashing siren lights, the frilly flower hat variety, or the near-transparent moon jelly, Aurelia aurita. A JELLYFISH, IF YOU WATCH IT LONG ENOUGH, begins to look like a heart beating.
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Her award-winning titles for children include The Castle in the Attic, The Battle for the Castle, Counting on Grace, and Dumpy La Rue among many others. Her short story, The Golden Darters, was selected by Best American Short Stories by Robert Stone and was recently read on SELECTED SHORTS by the renowned actress, Ann Dowd. She is also the author of the memoir piece, Don't Knock Unless You're Bleeding: Growing Up in Cold War Washington. Her family history about her parents' love affair during World War II and their marriage lived in the spotlight of Washington during the 1950s entitled Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies will be published by Regal House in October of 2022 under the name Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop. ELIZABETH WINTHROP (is the author of over sixty works of fiction for all ages, including Island Justice and In My Mother's House, both available as ebooks. And Charlene must decide if the promise of a new life is worth risking everything. 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