flying // short story
You’ve always wanted to escape your everyday life. Admit it. You go from one day to the next, through the motions of your life, working, talking, laughing, sleeping, living, but every now and then, every once in a while, in those small rare moments when life comes to a halt and silence falls and your mind wanders, you catch yourself staring out of the window at the iron-coloured, overcast sky, and dreaming of something different. Something new. Something other . You dream… Of warm sunlight on your skin. Of air rushing against your face. Of a turquoise, diamond-tipped sea spread underneath your feet and an endless sapphire sky above you as you fly. You dream of flying . You dream of weightlessness. You dream of a euphoric, soaring rebellion. You dream of freedom . What if your dreams could become a reality? What if you could actually make it there, to that open sky, to that beautiful sparkling sea of your fantasies? What if I told you that you could truly fly? You wouldn’t believe m