pendulum

Every drag of the clock's arm was like an eternity. Every tick put a fine line and punctuation on yet another moment spent pouring over this letter. Colette's brows sank. She pursed her lips for a moment before she crumpled the paper and threw it in the can with a dozen other pieces just like...

The evening was still relatively young so to speak. The afternoon's rainfall was starting to subside and with that the balance between what was flooding the streets shifted back from water to people again. Empty food stands began to serve one customer after the other at an increasingly rapid...