Uller squatted and tapped the floor and said, "Elliot. How fast that tsunami would get here?" Elliot froze in a spot and then did calculus with his fingers. When he spoke he #sounded a lot more scared than before, "From the first quake, hour at most." #vss365

the news #spread
faster than expected

#sirens #sounded
on now crowded streets

the band played
as citizens
marched in sync

posters reading:

'our aim - stopping the steal
of future deceptive #projects
by casting our votes blue'

#2wordprompt #vss365 #poetry

She tried but couldn't form a response. Not to this. Yes, she'd heard him, saw him speaking and knew the words came from him, yet none of it #sounded like the man she’d known all her life. His voice was thick, dry, and low, like he was drained of all hope and all reason.
#vss365 #amwriting