hurricane

As she rocked gently back and forth in the quickly cooling bathwater, she remembered something she had heard in another lifetime:

"Nothing is as special as what you take with you"

Upon remembering, she experienced the wildest moment of deja-vu before realising that all this really had happened many times before.

Her damp strands of hair swam like tiny snakes about her pale shoulders, and the ash from her smouldering cigarette tumbled like sooty confetti into the bathwater around her.