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Doggerland

“Listen to that.”

I listened. A muffled tolling, from where I couldn’t tell.

“Saint Peter’s bells. Washed away two hundred years ago, they were.”

I reeled in my line. I didn’t want to fish for a bit, just listen to the bells and the creaking boat.

“Once,” he said, “I fished far out. Caught a dogfish. Had an arrowhead in its belly.”

“It’s amazing to think people used to live down there,” I said. “Then the sea came.”

He shrugged, gestured to the lights on the coast. “What amazes me,” he said, “is that they seem to think it’s stopped.”

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This one is from the prompt ‘impermanence’. Most of the stories here are from some prompt or other, I just keep forgetting to mention it.

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  • Trina

    I like this one too, a little bit of Oh no we’re all going to die, like that’s news! Do more like this.

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