The night had passed so emotionally violent and quickly, Ed hadn't even noticed he'd not slept at all as the first signs of the sun began in the east. Cold blue seeped into the black of the sky, as if somebody had spilled an ink jar along the flat table of the horizon.
Ocean clouds formed and swelled, floating by in idiotic complacency. Ed hated those clouds. He just hated them. He wished for wind to rip them apart, or for dry air to swallow them whole. Instead, they just did as they wanted to do, as they had done for years and would continue to do for years to come. Ed felt hopeless in his hate.
Sunrise never came easily. The shark-bite of that first glare jutting through the sky like a sword, cutting Ed's pupils into the tiniest of pieces. The shine of the sun made him feel so alone. It reminded him that night was over, that the billboard in the sky was shut off, no longer above him glowing with hope in ten minute intervals. If he could have, he would have spent a lifetime on the island building a machine to destroy the sun. Anything to get rid of the sense of nothing it brought with it each time it lit up everything to reveal how bleak it all was in every corner and shadow.
He was looking to his right to scowl at the morning when he saw it. That damn boat. It had to be the same boat from last night that drew so close to torment him with belief only to speed away out of reach of his eyes and his desire to be rescued. That damn, damn boat. There it was. Ed stared at it and scowled at both the dawn and the boat. Together there on the horizon, the boat steadily bobbing, so close a bob could be seen. The sun rising behind it, with a bob of its own. They looked so gentle there together, the boat and the sun. As if neither of them could ever hurt somebody. "HA!" Ed chuckled with a knowing glance and an uplifted clenched hand. He shook his fist as his tears fell on the sand. "I KNOW BETTER," he said low and deep.
Posted by nft at August 26, 2004 06:13 AMHello NFT it's me from FC and how you be...yes I'm still reading your story.
//there is no bob at bobs.com//
Smile, love your work.
Posted by: Tubesock at September 9, 2004 01:19 PMEditor Bob, is that you? I'm hoping to write some more tonight and then some more this week; I've got an entire page of hand-written notes on this as I couldn't even hold them all in my head. This week will be busy for this story and the other one. Starting tonight, actually. Working on posting a paragraph to each.
I'm glad you're still reading. :)
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