Six Sentence Story: My Sunset, Your Sunrise

At the end of the day in Tampa, Greg went to Clearwater Beach (latitude 27.9772, longitude -82.8279) to watch the sun set. Earlier that day he saw the sun rise on Miami Beach.

As the sun began its entry below the waters of the Gulf of America, Greg quickly phoned his brother on a boat in the Indian Ocean near the Cocos Islands (latitude -27.9772, longitude 97.1721) to ask him, “Where do you see the sun in the sky where you are right now?”

“Right now it’s rising in the east,” his brother said.

“How is it possible that I’m seeing the sun half-way below the horizon in the west while you’re watching it rise half-way above the horizon in the east?”

“That’s what you get when you talk to someone on the opposite side of a globe.”

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Denise offers the prompt word “entry” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

There’s not much to this story except that I have some friends who have been trying to convince me that the earth is flat. This is sort of a rebuttal to their argument.

I was also looking for an opportunity to use the new name, Gulf of America. It took a minute to make the AI tool in the Brave browser admit that the correct name is the Gulf of America considering my current location in Florida although it tried to convince me otherwise.

Two birds watching the sun rise over the Flood Waters of Noah
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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

23 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: My Sunset, Your Sunrise”

  3. It’s all so confusing to me, of course, because it is directional, and I am not (even though I am half Portuguese, and my brother tells me we are navigators), but right away, a question arises. Is the glass half full or half empty? Of course, I would think this! I have no idea why or where it will go, or if it should go all.

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    1. It confuses me as well. That was another reason for writing the story. I found it hard to believe my East was someone else’s West. Regarding the half-full or half-empty glass, I’m looking for the cup that “runneth over”. Blessings and thank you, Mary!

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  4. the capacity for perspective surely is the most valuable of attributes. those struggling with this gift (innate in all of us, one hopes) often confuses, I accept this so I must reject that… faith is the bond. (Old RoadRunner cartoon meme: open box on the ground: Alpha-Omega (instead of Acme, of course) Running Shoes

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  5. Watching how a boat sinks going over the round horizon convinces me, and I don’t believe it contradicts the Word, either. “The four corners of the world” is an idiomatic expression, those are not meant to be taken so literally.

    As for the glass half empty/half full, it has as much as mommy wants to clean when you spill it.

    Your reply to Mary (tqhousecat) is beautiful.

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    1. Blessings to you, Mimi! Good point about the boat sinking as it goes over the horizon. I agree with you that a round Earth does not contradict the Word.

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