Before We Disappear

by Shaun David Hutchinson

“I’d rather be trapped with you than free without you.”

I think it must’ve been a person who’d wished for love but had never known it who’d created the first clock. Because time is a reminder of how quickly the present passes and how little of the future remains, and no one in love would want to know that.

the dawn always follows the dark.

And if you’re right, and our ship is doomed to go down, then we’ll sink together and I’ll play us a lullaby on the ocean floor.

You have my heart, Wilhelm Gessler. Keep it safe until we meet again.

He was a reminder that we’re all a few bad choices away from being someone else’s villain.