The metal frame lay across the pasture, its ironwork rusty red. Edward mused that it had once stood erect, envisioning a tower that would have pierced the very sky.

“To have seen such a thing!” he marvelled.

The wind howled its agreement, as it roared through the ruins of Paris.

Bill lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. He doubts his sanity all the time, and sometimes it doubts him right back.