A gathering on the shoreline.
Swathed in orange plastic, the men huddle around an oily campfire. They hold their palms to the flames in the acrid breeze that blows along the beach. Sea-wrack they are, ambergris, drifting in from faraway lands. Every day more come; staggering from the foamy brine, their lungs as still as twilight air in the moments before a lightning strike.
Issue 11
LOW LIGHT
£4
Matt Thompson is an experimental musician and writer of strange fictions. His work has been published at Interzone, Black Static, PseudoPod, Best of British SF anthology series, and many more worthy venues.