A question for the children, in a short story for the apocalypse. [Picture credit: mine!]

Where will the sun be, when the hunters have eaten?

William Essex
Nov 8 · 4 min read

We’ve gathered at the stone, the children and I, and I’m telling them the story about the sun.

It’s early in the day, because storytelling is important, and I’ve started the story by challenging them to look at the distant horizon and tell me where the sun will rise.

They’re just at that age where they leave the hearth to play-hunt in a pack, and…

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William Essex

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Writer, editor, publisher, Creative Director (seriously) at Climbing Tree Books (dot com). All views are my own. Mostly.

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