surface-shimmer

Updated: May 17, 2025

He had melted off into the surface-shimmer of the desert, into the mirage; he sank below the horizons; he was swallowed up in the waste of sand and sage. Then, without warning, he would reappear, coming in from the wilderness, emerging from the unknown. No one knew him well.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California