The Narrow Edge
Snippets and Speculative Fiction
How Long Is 24 Hours? — To Cut a Short Story Short
(800 words) Chimera, that was the name of the thing on my cup. A fire-breathing monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. Not something you’d want to meet on a dark night, or any night for that matter. I turned the cup around, watching the chocolate-coloured liquid swirl above the red mythological creature. How many times had I done the exact same thing, I wondered? Fifty, a hundred, a thousand even? Then it struck me, I was stuck in this one moment of time, forever drinking coffee out of this same cup, forever looking at the hideous beast and wondering of its provenance, pondering its manufacture, forever gazing around my cluttered kitchen – piles of papers, vitamins, medications on my table, washing up stacked in the sink.
How Long Is 24 Hours? — To Cut a Short Story Short
