Sable Earth
You felt your body jerked downward, through the layers of rotting earth. Tiny stones ground between your teeth, into your nostril and under your eyelids. The journey wore at your bruised and blistered flesh until your bones were nearly scraped raw. You knew you had died, but something was wrong. And there your soul was left bare and helpless buried deep in the earth; waiting patiently, as the seconds stretched into century, the minutes into millennia and hours into eons...
