Fossils

The tip of a pen scratched away at paper, furiously, purposefully. Inking away at thoughts regurgitated, facts spilled out faster than hands can move. Untidy, scribbled cursive font filled the once empty page with a strange consistency, printing paragraphs of ethical theories and conceptual linkages to hypothetical questions. The monotonous chime of the grandfather’s clock echoed in the still atmosphere, piercing the silence like an owl’s hoots in the night.

A cold, lonely night. Where the breeze whirred gently in the ears, whispering, calling. Sending shivers and chills down the spine. The streets void of a lingering soul, the streetlamps light up shadows alone. A stray trotted, hungry and curious, at the sound of the solitary car speeding by the deserted stretch of road, an unexpected change in the vacant night. It paused, sniffed, the senses wary but unexcited, the nerves working and the brain processing, uncovering the stark possibilities of a midnight snack waiting. But the knowledge was clear as reflection in a shiny glass window pane.

Knowledge that the relationship was impossibly fragile, inevitably teetering on its unstable edges. The rainbow sparks of light that once hit the prism were fading into nothingness, into a colourless hole like a bottomless pit.

And at the bottom of the pit there lay a dead body, a decomposing corpse nonchalantly dumped and forgotten eons ago by the heartless soul of criminal intentions. Flies and maggots and cockroaches and termites ravaged their delightful source of protein, savouring everything and leaving behind nothing to salvage save for the skeletal contents widely demanded of scientific research.

Fossils, they call it. 

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this is something different!
i started off by just writing any description of something, which somehow became a description of my ethics midterm paper (which btw hasnt started yet its supposed to be this saturday) and at some point it leads to another topic, and with each topic another description develops from another scenario, and then it leads on and so on. 
i stopped at fossils cos that's where i realize i don't know how and what to describe anymore.
it's kinda fun! its just another version of my plotless excerpts.
although it's still kind of short i think. can be developed more! something i would want to try again when i have more TIME on my hands.