copyright Jan Wayne Fields
Gotterdammerung
We couldn’t face New York City sober, so out came the last of the whiskey and we danced a frenzied, forgetful dance on the deck of the last fishing boat in the Atlantic.
Around 6am, the boat entered the Narrows, the AI effortlessly navigating the spidery, rust corpse of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Belle crawled to the railing and peered ahead into the darkness. “There’s hope, right? Deep down in the subway system. People could survive.”
I nodded, took another drink.
The sun rose and Belle suddenly laughed and pointed. “She’s still there, torch held high. There’s still hope after all.”
The Green-Walled Tower 