Today - ∞

Today I found a dead snake under the porch. It was so dry and for a while I wondered if thirst could transcend that unfathomable barrier of mortality. So I buried it and poured a bucket of water over the fresh soil. I felt merciful or compassionate in some poetic sense, but later I decided that all I'd really left behind was a wet dead animal, buried in the ground.

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Today I sent a letter to my grandmother. I'm twenty-one years old, she's eighty-something; I'd never done this before. The letter simply said, "Grandma, please don't die too soon. I have too many questions."

She died that afternoon.

A week later, I received a letter saying, "Sorry to disappoint you, but that's life."

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Today I read a book I thought I'd never read before. I was wrong though. I've been reading that Bible for years.

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Today I saw the sun and the moon share the sky, and then I saw the Big Bomb fall from it.

A wall of black one hundred feet high and dark as a mouth raced outwards from the centre.

That black mouth ate everything on its way to me. I smiled.

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