Sunday 3 January 2016

Dolomedes

I peer into the bottomless well, willing my eyes to penetrate the blackness. Unforgiving, empty. I pull myself onto the cool brick edging and glance over my shoulder as if I am being followed. I am alone. The night air is brisk. I am moving faster than I imagined I would. I check again. I am alone. I slide off the edge and into the abyss below. No turning back now.

Somebody calls out my name.

I clutch at the smooth walls for nothing, silently tangling with darkness as I fall.

It's too late.
And I have changed my mind.


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