The beach is used by families who often hold picnics on it by sports enthusiast who engage in swimming surfing and volleyball and buy casual recreational users who enjoy long walks along the ocean shore

its definitely second person : )

explanation:

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.

the answer is  loss : )