inheritance

(a response to the Imagà Imaginings 2.0 prompt
“Image Prompt #6”
by Michael Stalcup)

Photo by Christie Stalcup

following the scream, i caught up to him, too late. cloudy eyes, greasy forehead, wispy hair — the parched, dying earth swallowed the last bit of him, as easily as quicksand. a breeze stole his hat and dropped it in the last bit of water at my feet, whispering

“all this is left unto you”

then only silence.

This is a response to the Imagà Imaginings 2.0 prompt
“Image Prompt #6”
by Michael Stalcup.