Before Dusk

“The desert was as silent as the grave today.

An endless, all consuming, grave that ran from horizon to horizon in a profoundly morbid display of liminal excess.

But a grave, nonetheless.

Sands stretched and rolled under a blazing sun, and in the blue, cloudless sky the great skeleton of Luft hung, its great singular eye overseeing the golden stage with a relentless glare.”

Jayna is far from Home on the hunt for the rare and treasured vibralillies that dot the desert, determined to make a name for herself amongst her people.

There’s only three problems:

Her brother hid away on the skiff and the Dusk is rising.

Oh, and nobody knows they’re out there…

5,996 Words

Submitted to the Ironclad Creative Winter Short Story Competition ‘Dusk’

Before Dusk won 4TH PLACE in the Ironclad Creative Winter Short Story Competition and is now available for Amazon, for Kindle and in paperback!