99 word prompt: colonnades


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Desert-beige legs like colonnades framed a thirsty expanse, providing support for a woman torn.  As I wandered through life, searching for purpose in 1987, I dreamt of being a geologist, loved learning about rock strata and mining the fossils littering a hillside. 

They’d lived in oceans for over 270 million years, far longer than humans will litter the Earth, trilobites finding their end inside a mass die-off.

They were swept away together…each death a personal ordeal.

As I loosened one from a stone coffin, I wondered if the creatures replacing us will stop to ask, “Did it feel pain?”