Friday Flash – Wilson & Masters
Wilson & Masters
They cruised along the elevated section. City lights spread all around them in constellations and reefs of light in an ocean of night.
‘We think we’re at the centre of things but we’re not,’ Masters said. ‘There is no centre.’
The road rose and dipped. Streams of red and white vehicle lights flowed away and towards them.
Wilson missed the old certainties. ‘We’ve done some pretty amazing things.’
‘We’re still lost.’
Wilson looked up at the night sky and imagined planet earth a lonely speck in the endless dark. ‘I wish you wouldn’t say things like that.’
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No. 20 in the ‘Beyond the Streets‘ sequence.
“reefs of light” is a lovely phrase. If there is no centre, do they live in a world without a Big Bang?
Minor typo in para2: “We think were”
Thank you, John! And well spotted.
I was driving through Birmingham(UK) at night, listening to World Party’s ‘Lost in Infinity’ – and this came to me. A small world.