end of the world

  • Listless

    There are shallows of water- here after the tides receded. Gathered together lie small urchins and slimy  anemones,  tentacles laying flaccid in the salty water.   The stones around the pool’s perimeter are stained with dark purple mosses and have cracked through over thousands of years of altered weather.   The water is hot, hotter…

    Listless
  • Five Til’ Midnight

      “What time do you have?” Looking down at his watch he saw in the smallest of flashing increments the minute hand twitch along its orbit, and the second hand swooping past around the face to pass the last notch at vertical zero. “Five til’ midnight,” was the terse reply. And yet he watched the…

    Five Til’ Midnight