Hotel at Innsmouth (7)

Something in the picture had changed; O could not put her finger on it until she saw the fisherman’s feet.

The fisherman was no longer wearing rubber green boots; his feet were naked with webbed toes.

Alarmed by the webbed toes – the sudden change in the picture, O turned round and walked back along the jetty.

Only when she had reached the shore, did she dare herself look back. - Everything was almost – though not quite as before. - The fisherman mending his net. Legs stretched out in rubber green boots. The seagull sitting complacently on the post nearby.