The Cliff Painter
Posted: | Categories: Fiction | Tags: fairy tales, ocean, time
Today I am sharing with you a short story I recently performed at a storytelling evening. It’s a fairy tale.
My music recommendation for today is Toothsayer by Tanya Tagaq
She had always loved the ocean. From where she sat, perched precariously on the platform dangling from the side of the snow white cliffs she could see the waves lapping against the rock on windy days, the ocean slowly consuming the land and taking it away in its gentle caress. In a few hundred, maybe a thousand years, the ocean would have seduced the land at last and taken every piece of it into its endless depths. She would have to find a new job when that happened.
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