There was this girl I knew who could read the heavens as if they were novels.
I haven't the faintest clue how, but she seemed to comprehend that mysterious filigree of the divine light.
Every now and then, I would see her sitting all by her lonesome on the roof of our building.
She was on an important mission: her eyes sidetracked the asteroids so that they wouldn't fall down to Earth.
Once, she told me that human beings were divided into two groups: the ones who have terrestrial and the ones who have celestial bodies.
She promised she'd show me how to differentiate them.
After work, I was usually dead on my feet. I dragged my terrestrial body back home Monday through Friday.
While I had supper, I would wave at her from the window of my apartment. Her seraphic lips would wave back at me with a celestial smile.
I'd always leave my window open at night.
I knew just how much she liked open windows and closed people behind them.
To her mind, the windows were monographs that reflected the fragments of the sky.
One day I decided to join her on the rooftop.
But when I clambered up there, I found nothing but a pair of discarded red Converse trainers.
I knew there and then she must have left this planet for good.
She flew away as a blazing comet, barefooted, to the outer space where she belongs.
She left her trail in the brilliant calligraphy dissipated in the ionosphere.
A/N: Music theme song: The Beatles: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Performed by: Cirque de Soleil
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Short StoryThis book is a collection of numerous short stories I have created, both mini and midi ones, written in the period of the past twenty years. Some of them are award-winning entries in various micronarrative competitions. Others were adapted with the...
