Some passages from Dell's "The Tidal Wave and Other Stories" would seem appropriate...
"The peace of the pool was shattered. A shining wave, curved, green, transparent, gleamed round the corner, ran, swift as a flame, along the rock, and broke with a thunderous roar in a torrent of snow-white surf. In a moment the pool was a seething tumult of water....
...there came a roar such as he had not heard before—a sound so compelling, so nerve-shattering, that even he was arrested, entrapped as it were by a horror of crashing elements that made him wonder if all the fiends in hell were fighting for his soul. And, as he paused, the swirl of a great wave caught him in the darkness like the blow of a concrete thing, nearly flinging him backwards. He staggered, for the first time stricken with fear, and then in the howling uproar of that dreadful place there came..."
Artist's last son, age 4, wearing turtleneck sweater, under the crest of a wave pipeline, azure and violet hues, streaming sea foam, facial expression suggesting prescience, foresight
Series Description: -Ranging from major depression to minor melancholy, an exploration of the faces of the unhappy.
