Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi

Author:Philip Fracassi [Fracassi, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2021-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

LIGHT.

Bright enough to turn the skin of her closed eyelids to pink. She flickered them open, stared at a clear blue sky. A nimble, warm wind swept the earth, fingered her hair, tickled her skin. She sat up, the pain in her chest gone.

She looked about, confused and sleepy. The day seemed to sing a sweet silent coda to her of its perfection, its absolute beauty.

She stood on wobbly legs, but felt good, felt strong. She took a few deep breaths, let the analeptic oxygen clear her head, feed her heart.

“Esther!”

The voice came from beyond the line of trees stretching before her, a line that would become a tunnel leading home.

“Esther!”

She knew that voice, and with a gasp, she ran.

She cut through brush to the path, hopped over a fallen trunk, landed on her heels and pumped her legs around the bend. The tunnel appeared before her, and in the distance, the familiar meadow, and her house. She could see her bedroom window, closed now. At the front of the house she saw a woman looking toward the trees, hand shielding her eyes, blonde hair whispering out from the sides of her neck. A man came and stood next to the woman. He wrapped an arm lovingly around her shoulders.

He waved at her, and Esther, smiling and sprinting, waved wildly back. She ran across the vast plane of meadow, thrown wide in all dimensions, covered in brilliant green and dotted with flowers, the colors of which she’d never seen.

Bells chimed where her feet crushed grass, and the trees lining either side of her bent, creaking, as she ran past; long trunks curving to point her way home. The wind pushed at her back, lifting her.

Earth and sky melted away as she leapt through electric silence.

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