The Drop

"Closing time, every new beginning/ Comes from some other beginning’s end" -Semisonic

Photo by Filip Zrnzević on Unsplash

Call me, the text said.

I stood at the precipice staring down at a near vertical drop into a double black at Stevens Pass — the drop, an irony of both my physical and metaphorical location. The quietude and calm were only broken by music drifting from loudspeakers far below, and…