Mayday, Mayday, for pilots whose planes had been hit, and ship--was it ships too?--at sea.Help me.
HELP ME.
Like smoke from anunseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire of a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.
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Do you know what it came from? said him. Mayday?
No, I said. It's a strange word to use for that, isn't it?
It's French, he said. From M'aidez.
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloudcover.
