By the Tide

"When the pull is too strong."

Summary

Ina Langston, devastated by the turmoil of unceasing sorrow, is wrestling with her desire to end her time on Earth and her love for the two most important people in her life: Constance, her girlfriend and Oscar, a ghost. On Constance and Ina's anniversary Ina admits to Constance that she loves Oscar with the hope of somehow preserving a fragment of their relationship but is instead told to drop dead. Ina and Oscar, feeling detached from their world and summoned by the pull of the tide, choose to make an irreversible decision rather than dwell in never-ending unhappiness.