a brief fragment of disaster dream

Scene: a clifftop park by the sea. I’m puttering with my laptop. Nick is there too. Suddenly he says “what’s that sound?”. I don’t hear anything, my ears are acting like there’s a sudden, huge change in pressure. Then we look out to sea and there’s this huge wave coming in.

There’s this moment of silence, just watching it rise up and up and up.

“Tsunami”, I say, in a normal but slightly forceful voice. I pick up my laptop and power brick. “Run”.

Then I’m awake.

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