Jul 21, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Perfugium
©July 21st, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

“What is that thing, Sire?” clicked Secondus.

Primus, squinting through the periscope at the watery world around them, clicked out a reply.

They’d been stranded in the trenches of the ocean world. Air supplies had diminished, as the plants in their craft died.  They’d risen to the surface just in time.  

Their craft bobbed nearer.  The water fell away; the drowned land rose into view.  There was no sign of life.

Primus quailed when he saw the figure holding its torch.

“They must have been giants,” he rasped.

They discerned some writing below, but no matter. 

They’d finally found refuge.

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With many thanks to our Super-Muse and Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers week after week.  Thanks, also, to Jan Wayne Fields for the beautiful photograph.

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