Paintings

A short story

Photo by Enzo Tommasi on Unsplash

The fishermen’s settlement seemed to be the last place until the end of the world. A pile of collapsed stone over the edge of the sea.

People were pulling poverty from the seashore to their homes and back. Or what was left of their homes that had been hit by an earthquake two years ago. All the houses had cracked walls, and some of them had no roofs. People were in the wind, rain, frost, and…