This week’s photo writing prompt courtesy of Sue Vincent’s brilliant #writephoto challenge is entitled simply “frozen”. How did the world end?

How did the world end? Well, it wasn’t like the books or the movies. There would be no fiery apocalypse, no rapture or alien invasion. No epidemic, no zombies, no flood, no time for global warming. In spite of our best efforts, it wouldn’t even be by our own hand. No technological misadventures; nuclear, biological or chemical. No rise of heartless robot overlords. We would not even suffer the fate of the dinosaurs, no titanic rock, strewn down from the heavens.

No, it would be a single grain of sand that would seal our fate when the hourglass finally ran out. A sand grain plucked from atop a sun-scorched dune deep in the Sahara. No different to a billion other grains it was blown on heated wings halfway around the world. Until like Icarus, its wings lost, it fell. Falling through frigid water-saturated clouds the grain would become a seed. The seed of our destruction.

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