Amateurs

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This is a work of fiction.

More of it is real than you think!

Jake Knoll stared in the general direction of the fire, his eyes focused at a point in the darkness a hundred meters beyond the charred timbers, which were still spouting tendrils of flame.

“Shame about your boat,” Fire Marshal Fredricks offered, indicating the blackened outline of a sleek, finned hull amidst the embers. “Would’a liked to see it go.”

Jake continued to stare blankly for a few seconds, before the words sank in. “Boat… oh, yeah. Thanks,” he replied dispiritedly, shrugging against the evening chill, and shifting his focus to the ruins of his project.

“Um, you covered by insurance?” the fire marshal asked.

Jake let out a long sigh. “Let it lapse a couple of months ago. Stupid, I know. Needed the money to finish the hull.”

The fire marshal looked strangely relieved. “There’s a sunny side to that, if you care to hear it.”

“You mean because it’s arson?” Jake asked.

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