The enormity of it compared to an individual human existence made gazing at it akin to staring at the stars, but unlike the stars you could stand at its very edge and touch it. You could dip your feet into its waves while staring at the endless expanse beyond, squinting toward that point on the horizon where the azure ocean below somehow merged with the cerulean skies above, forming one never-ending sea.
Read MoreThe sands of the endless desert shifted imperceptibly as the swirling gusts of the evening storms roiled once more across the vista. An endless expanse of nothingness lay in all possible directions, a landscape without landmarks, just the ever-changing dunes, grey in the light of the broken moon above.
Read More“Once we did not live in the cracks,” she whispered, “but under bright lights walking tall. There were forests and rivers and oceans, spaces larger than could be imagined. We could fly and race at incredible speeds and watch stories told on magic windows.”
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