Word Count: 89 words of text, exactly
Genre: Mythological epochal fiction
Wheel
©June 1st, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
The wheel turned, and time turned with it. The earth rose and fell in large, slow panting gasps.
No one knew the stone-and-mud abode existed. This valley had been formed millennia ago when the earth yawned, and everything caved in. All that was left was this dwelling.
Well, not just that. There was a person inside, sleeping. When the wheel turned again, he awoke.
“Mother?” he called, confusedly. Where was his large family whose footsteps shook the world?
Earth answered. The valley tumbled into oblivion.
The man slept again.
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