Forgiveness

There was something overwhelmingly inauspicious about the night. An exasperating silence lurked over the atmosphere as if in the aftermath of an elapsing catastrophe. The shining cold beacon which stares down from the sky had perhaps closed its eyes and was reclining behind a coverlet of clouds. The stillness in the air seemed eerily uncanny…

Transition

He woke up in his mother's arms. "Oh, thank God, Ma," he said, "I had a bad dream. I saw that I lost you". She smiled down at him and said something that he couldn't understand. It felt weird; like he was somehow smaller than when he had fallen asleep. He kept looking at his…