The Elementals (2011)
“Annie? Can you hear me? Gawdamighty! Miz Murphy? Miz Murphy! Talk to me! Gawdamighty!” Daniel Foster feverishly chafed Annie Murphy’s hands. She was aware of him as from a great distance. He was a puny being, less than an ant, a thing of no importance, and he labored frantically over another thing of no importance.
Annie observed.
The boulder observed.
The woman’s body lay prone on the beaten earth in front of the stone, with Daniel Foster crouching over her. His face was pale, his eyes were wi...ld. He kept repeating “Gawdamighty!” like a prayer as he struggled to restore her to consciousness.
Annie/boulder observed with a vast indifference. Why would any being wish to spend a few flickers of eternity in a parcel of flesh, isolated from similar fleshly beings by a total lack of communal consciousness, doomed to pain and disease and a swift extinction?
Boulder/Annie watched and pondered these things.
Once Foster shot a glance at the stone. Fear frosted his face.
His efforts were pathetic, but the human impulse behind them touched that which had been Annie Murphy.MoreLess
Annie observed.
The boulder observed.
The woman’s body lay prone on the beaten earth in front of the stone, with Daniel Foster crouching over her. His face was pale, his eyes were wi...ld. He kept repeating “Gawdamighty!” like a prayer as he struggled to restore her to consciousness.
Annie/boulder observed with a vast indifference. Why would any being wish to spend a few flickers of eternity in a parcel of flesh, isolated from similar fleshly beings by a total lack of communal consciousness, doomed to pain and disease and a swift extinction?
Boulder/Annie watched and pondered these things.
Once Foster shot a glance at the stone. Fear frosted his face.
His efforts were pathetic, but the human impulse behind them touched that which had been Annie Murphy.MoreLess
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