He let the ringing of a chord and the vibrato of his voice carry the last fading sounds of his melody. When he opened his eyes, everyone was at their dinner tables talking with each other and eating. No one had noticed that his song ended.
She stomped down the path from the science building. Her ideas were good, and she knew it. Their laughter still echoed in her mind. If she was a man, they would have listened to everything.
The moon wasn’t out that night. It had been the Earth’s companion for so long that it couldn’t bear to watch us suffer, so it turned its face away. We may never see our friend again.
A man with a half shaved head and no shirt removes my handcuffs. He slaps into my hand a metal tube that comes to a needle turned at a right angle at the end. There is only one button.
She was envious of the life here. It would be so easy for her to accept an invitation to become part of this location, part of this peace. She would be happy as one of the trees or even just a flower by the river’s edge, but it would never be.