Nice Work John! (A New Short, Short Story)

Wednesday is about books. And writing. Today, a wee short story. That's also a true story. Another from my series of non-fiction shorts. My autobiographical short fiction.

I had a different name for a couple of years there. But only as far as my swimming coach was concerned. It was hard to correct him from the pool – so I never did. I just demonstrated the strokes as best as I was able, and only whenever he asked ‘me’ to.

“Everybody watch John”, he would say. And the kids in the pool would all look around. There was no one…