Fracking

Sunset blues

Peel away my brittle crust, shards cracking along fault lines, exposing a vulnerable underbelly, sore and raw. Delve too deep and my molten core erupts, scorching all in its path, an unquenchable force.

The weekend Trifextra challenge:
the structure of the earth can be divided most simply into three sections: core, mantle, crust. Give 33 words, interpreting the prompt literally, metaphorically, or somewhere in between.

26 thoughts on “Fracking

  1. I love this on a number of levels – from the global to the personal. It can be taken so many beautiful ways. Amazing – one of my favorites this weekend, I think!

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  2. Nice piece. Fracking water is being buried in the county where I grew up. Hopefully Matt Damon’s movie will help get the word out. Seems like nobody’s listening…

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