crossingscon:

• You walk into a lush park. A squirrel runs halfway up a tree. A thousand squirrels run halfway up a tree. You grip your dog’s leash and pray he will let you escape.
• Entropy is increasing. Entropy is always increasing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You try to slow it down, but it keeps coming after you. Your sister won’t give you her lightsaber.
• You have met Death. Death has met you. You think you might be frenemies.
• You toss a coin in the koi pond. A koi fish surfaces and speaks to you in sonnets. You have wandered into the wrong yard.
• Your summer fling stares at you from across the fence. Your lips still tingle from his kiss. It is not a natural tingle. “Who are you,” you ask. He cannot answer. Even he does not know.
• Your alien boyfriend is cuddling on the couch with you. Your alien boyfriend is learning how to bake a birthday cake. Your alien boyfriend is frustrated at how many official functions he has to attend. Your alien boyfriend vanished several years ago.
• Falling leaves in the forest make an eldritch design. The trees have been working on the design all year. You have trod across the design. You have disturbed the design. You are now part of the design.
• Death is Benedict Cumberbatch. Death is a beautiful woman in a gazebo. Death is an otter. Death is afraid of your little sister’s robot children.
• Millions have emerged from the fertile womb of your little sister’s mind. From across the lightyears, you can hear them whisper in the night as they improve your bandwidth. You are using it to download Doctor Who.