The Night Sky_The Agoraphobe_Grandpa's Last Gift_Waste of Space
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The Night Sky
I always have a special feeling while looking at the sky, especially at night. As usual I was looking at those stars through my window. And suddenly I noticed a bright light moving in the sky. At first I thought it was a shooting star, but it wasn't.It started to change colour from yellow to orange and then to red. I felt so curious about it. I had a million thoughts and I really wanted to check what it was.Unfortunately it was already midnight and my parents were sleeping and there was no way I could go out. So I tried to sleep.But I couldn't sleep! When I close my eyes I see that shining thi...
The Agoraphobe
By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire.It startled me at first. Like the seed tucked, hidden really, inside a fruit. I thought I was hallucinating.Whenever I dreamt about going outside, being outside, the dreams were always the same: gray, cold, empty. Nothing really to look at. Trash and distracted people. And there were hardly ever trees.But today, for the first time in ten years, I saw the trees. I saw the sky. I saw the grass and the flowers and the insects. I heard the birds coo, the cats yowl. A beautiful, illuminating symphony of sound. A cacophony of colors. A whirlw...
Grandpa's Last Gift
When my grandfather died, I remember my family and I only having the rest of that sorrowful evening to lament his loss before having to appear composed and proper for his funeral service the following day. I’m still not entirely sure how we managed it, but we did. I could say the same about any number of circumstances that have occurred throughout my life. “You must chin up and carry onwards, dear Victoria,” my dad would always say. “The sorrows of life will not wait for you.” I wasn't sure if I had the heart to do what was expected of me, if I could handle such a thing. The only thing I knew...
Waste of Space
The two men dug the grave with sturdy shovels composed of pure gold. They wore bulky but expensive white suits smeared with red dust that was not coming out in the wash, but it was better than freezing to death in the endless rust-colored desert.The taller one paused from the hard labor to wipe the sweat from his forehead only to swipe pointlessly at his reflective visor before realizing what was happening with a heavy sigh.The shorter man heard him over his comms unit and laid his shovel in the rust-powder soil. "It could be worse, Nathan."Nathan nodded seriously, but it looked comical in his...