User blog:Enchanteddragons/ggad short stories —

//this is most likely where I’m going to compile them from now on, particularly the ones about the sibling pairs since that’s where most of my tidbits come from

A Knock
The world sent some birds today.

I couldn’t see them from my spot, but their chirping filled up my usual silence. Funny how a single step can make you see so much more. The inside of our tent only welcomed a sliver of outside, but at the opening the world presented itself to me. A single step more, and I would be able to see the birds. But I can’t. For a little bit, gone for a while, just a second. Your goodbye comes in many forms. Everything, except for ‘goodbye’ itself. Stay here, and we’ll see each other again, I assume. How lonely. It’d be easier to just fall asleep, but the world outside moves on, with or without me here to see it. And with so little to see, I want to see it all. The last time you came home, we went to the marketplace together. Buy whatever you want, I remember you said, smiling as you always did. I chose a dolphin. It’s eyes were the same as yours, a deep cobalt blue. You noticed and laughed. The way you always did. It looked pretty in the sunlight. The dolphin charm fit squarely in the palm of my tiny hand. It couldn’t be that expensive, right? I know you’d pay for whatever I asked for, but I didnt want you to stay away longer. A little girl like me isn’t normal. Mister shopkeeper always gives us a discount. When we walk down the street, you squeeze my hand painfully. You’re always looking around too. My little dolphin was named Siggy. After you, of course. Dont answer anyone’s questions, you say again. Your paranoia shows. I’ll be fine, just like the last and the last and the last time you left me. My end of our journey is always at home. I hang Siggy up. He swims in the sun’s rays, those small chips of light bringing the ocean to my little corner of the world. My eyelids droop against the setting sun. If the world came with outstretched hands, willing to show me just how big it was, would I be awake to see it? I let Siggy play in the water. An hour or two wouldn’t hurt, and today was probably going to be an overnight mission.

The world came knocking today.

And she wore a red flower in her eye.