The Oracle of All Wisdom
“This is the Oracle of all Wisdom,” you [hear]/[reply]. The sound of breathing down the line.
A flash piece I wrote a few years ago, and that only coalesced into its final form when I condensed it into a micro.
Listen if you like: Ecclesiastes, that moment at the end of a story when you realise you haven’t travelled too far from the start.
Read it for free at The Welkin Genre Prize, where it was shortlisted. Edited by Matt Kendrick, seelcted by Myna Chang.