Cate Vorhies

Absolution

The heat didn’t bother me so much anymore. At least, that’s what I told myself. In the distance, a dust devil kicked up Sulphur yellow and scorched brown earth; sending it spinning through the air in a radioactive colored cloud across the desert landscape. After a while, one got used to living in a place where every day brought the same; unrelenting, unchanging heat. The light was just as bad. Everywhere you looked, it was like staring into the sun too long. Once ‘they’ had come, they seemed to have taken away everything about the planet that was gentle towards its original inhabitants.