The Island
Kristine Ong Muslim
STAND ON TOP of the hammer-shaped rock over there and look toward the direction of the lighthouse. There, by the third-story window, you can make out the figure of a man in a darkcolored jacket. He appears dark haired, of slim build, about five-nine- or six-foot tall. You can easily estimate his height off the lighthouse window’s dimensions and approximate distance between the window frame and the floor of the lighthouse. He appears on that spot at roughly the same time every day. Sometimes, he appears around one p.m., sometimes around two. Then he disappears at around four p.m. and returns the next afternoon.
When you enter the lighthouse and check the spot where he is supposed to have been standing, you will not find him. I already tried doing that with
