Nov 27, 2015 Friday Fictioneers

Sisyphus The Second
©November 27th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  End-Times, Greek-Myth-Sci-Fi Style

They condemned me to hell.
I’d committed a crime beyond forgiveness.  I’d destroyed the oceans, and lied about it.
When They heard about it, They plucked me from my mansion, and set me down hard on petroleum-covered beaches.
Now, I have to scale that ravaged cliff, build a lighthouse atop it, occupy it, destroy it, climb back down, re-scale the cliff, rebuild the lighthouse, and repeat it all, while the methane burns above me, and the seas boil below me.
And I have to flick the lights on and off.
I don’t see why.
There’s nobody out there.

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Thanks, as always, to our Fairy Blog-Mother and brilliant story-teller, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for being our gracious host every week at Friday Fictioneers, and to Sandra Crook an amazing story-teller and photographer, for this week’s photo-prompt.

 

 

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