The Authentic Eclectic

The Dead Body on the Beach

A Story of Greek Beaches

JA Vassili
8 min readMar 13, 2022

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A rocky beach overlooking the ocean, JA Vassili, Medium
Photo by Evangelos Mpikakis on Unsplash

When I was young my brother and I were friends. We lived in Greece on the island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. In the winter we read books, listened to LPs, danced, and tormented our little sister. In the summer we climbed the little mountains and desecrated the ancient churches, and we swam in the Aegean. There…

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JA Vassili

I write fiction, essays, and poetry. I write what I want to read; I read what I want to write. I’ve been at it since I was a kid; I’ll be at it when I’m ancient