Daily story, September 13, 2025

From up here, you can look out over the ocean and see the curve of the earth. It is curving the wrong way, up at the edges, like a slight smile. That is bad, but this is worse: with the world curving that way, instead of the horizon you should see the water continuing, up and over. You can’t get the shape of it to make sense in your head. But this is worst of all: nobody else up here seems to have noticed.