Hourglass

At the very moment you are born, an hourglass is tipped to the other side. The sands within the hourglass start its descent downward, and once every finite grain has plummeted to the bottom, your life comes to a halt. What do you do with this time?

Bliss

This short story was a submission for an anthology series from my alma mater.
The theme was “The Light in Darkness”…