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Ocean Like most people with too many middle names, Jacobie Jacobo Ruy Andrada Tineo was never taken seriously.  The ocean terrified him which was problematic because it was his only direct neighbour. He hated sand and instead wished for the silence of a forest so thick with trees it forgets how to whisper. His home of plywood walls and a metal sheet roof was built many years before by his great-grandmother, Lucretia Coley Andrada Tineo, after a quarrel with her best friend who’d accused her of having an affair with her husband - which was true. But she took offence to this being publicly stated, packed up her family and moved angrily to live in a poorly constructed shack. Jacobie never forg...View all