The Moon That Eats
He sat staring at the ocean, sitting on the warm sand as though the earth itself cradled him. Far off, the moon glowed; full, enormous, silver with an otherworldly intensity. It hung so heavy in the sky that it seemed both impossibly far away and crushingly close, as though the horizon itself would crack beneath its weight.
A calm breeze moved inward off the sea, cool and yet alive. In it he felt traces of something vast, threads of life and death streaming toge...