Desert Vacation by Brent Robison
Winning entry in the 2006 Literal Latte Short Shorts Contest. The sky is one shade of blue, horizon to horizon. It’s glossy and hard, a vast overturned bowl of fine china baked to brilliant sapphire. Under it, a broken line of humans stretches long and thin across the flats, then bunches thick at steep places where footing is treacherous.