Every now and again I have a weird idea for a short little story or writing exercise… well here’s today’s:
When I was younger I used to stay awake as long as I could, laying in the long grass outside my family home. I would watch the stars twinkle and dance across the night sky, I’d see streaks of light etch their way across the void, all while listening to the distant chatter of bugs enjoying the night. However, I always wanted to watch the stars turn to the blue sky I saw throughout the day, I wanted to see the night turn to dawn but I would always fall asleep, bristled by the gentle breeze blowing the grass around me. Hours later, I’d wake to see the bright blue shining down on me… not the endlessly brilliant star filled sky.
One warm, arid night I was laying in the grass - now so long that it obscured my vision of the night sky. I didn’t mind though, I actually kind of liked it - it created a dark frame around my vision, perfectly drawing my attention to the stars above. It was on this night that I saw a star appear, as if from nowhere. I hadn’t seen it any other night, nor was it there seconds earlier. At first it was a faint reddish star, clear but distant. I watched it over the next hour grow increasingly bright, flicking violently the entire time. It grew to dominate my framed vision, creating a brilliant silhouette of the grass around me. Its red glow turning the black night sky into a violent battlefield of spilled blood, I began to hear birds stir as the star bathed the world in a morning like light. But in a flash, it was gone, transforming the entire sky back into that brilliant darkness… before a second, even greater explosion of colour was cast across the sky. Streaks of red, blue and yellow created stellar rainbows across the entire sky.
I laid there for hours, watching the sky transform from one beautiful painting to another. Watching as these streaks seemed to curve across the sky towards other stars, connecting them with what seemed like space highways. It was at that moment I began to see it… a faint light over the eastern horizon, dawn was just approaching. I had watched such an amazing and beautiful stellar phenomenon happen in the predawn hours of this late summer day. The sun grew larger over the horizon, bathing the trees and rooftops I could barely see, in a golden morning light. I could feel the morning heat begin to warm the day beyond its already traditional summer heat. I sat up and saw the sky not bathed in the usual orange and blue tones of dawn but instead it looked blown out, ghostly even.
Leaves on the trees began to shrivel and fall. Fires began to ignite across the gardens. The sky was blinding to look at and I could feel my skin begin to boil. Blood bubbled across the surface of my arms and my vision grew cloudy… until I could see was that dark sky again but this time no stars to twinkle back at me. I collapsed to the ground, my breath becoming sharp and difficult. Eventually, I came to accept my fate and laid back down in that spot I always had and looked up at the sky and just imagined what I had seen in the predawn sky. I felt a faint smile formed across my face as all I saw were streaks of red, blue and yellow before white.
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