Every Monday, I post a piece of flash fiction--a story clocking in
at 300 words or less. Each story can also be found on my deviantART and Wattpad pages.
Enjoy!
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When you’re ready, meet me above the clouds.
The
wind wrapped itself around her body, brushing her hair against her skin and
rustling the feathers behind her back. She flexed the muscles protruding from
her back, stretching them out as far as they would reach. Her fingers twitched,
feeling the wind that embraced her.
She
took a breath and ran.
Her
bare feet pounded against the dirt beneath her, splashing through puddles and
crushing dead leaves. It was dark, but even so she could see the end of the
earth fast approaching.
She
stretched out her arms, shifted her wings. Her feet pushed off the ground for a
final time, the weight of her body working with gravity to push her down, down
towards the earth that was now far beneath her.
But
gravity had never won against her before.
Within
moments she was soaring, flying, swooping with the wind. Her wings carried her
up, higher and higher, the wind growing colder and pricking her skin with goose
bumps. She felt the moisture of the vapor as she entered the clouds; the things
she had once imagined as fluffy cotton balls nothing more than water in
disguise.
Thousands
of stars, stretching out for miles and miles in all directions. The earth was
far beneath her now; the air was thin and cold, her short breaths coming out in
clouds of her own creation. The moon sparkled and shone in the sky—not as
bright as the sun, but easier to look at.
Then
there was him.
The
moonlight accented his own wings as he circled around, riding the currents of
air as he waited for her. He noticed her quickly and paused, allowing gravity
to drop him towards her. He took her hands in his and the two shot upward,
twirling and dipping and soaring together, as they performed their own skyward
dance in the starlight.
~~
Until later,
- Justyne
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