At first glance, there was nothing frightening about the photograph. A father and his little daughter stood in the shallow water at Carrum Beach, caught in the middle of the kind of ordinary happiness families photograph without thinking twice. It was the girl’s first trip there. She was waving toward the camera. Her father stood close beside her. A dog was nearby. The water looked calm enough that the photograph might easily have disappeared into an album among hundreds of other childhood memories. Then someone noticed the shadow. Behind the father and daughter, farther out…
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