Sunshine | Fiction

A longer, short story version of this piece appears in full in the short story collection, You, Me and the Rest of US: #NewYorkStories. The book is available in ebook and paperback on all major retailers.

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You wake up, but you’re still asleep.

Your dreams remain with you. Winning lottery tickets fly around in your head, alongside fantasies of childhood parental approval. Instead of saying “no” that time, you see the possibilities of a “yes.” You think of your ex-whoever and relive the moment when you realized it wouldn’t last. You feel the tear on your left cheek that you didn’t wipe away.

You teach yourself how to fly (the secret is to know that you can).

Your eyelids raise halfway as you walk and sleep, brush and sleep, piss and sleep. Everything is a mile away and covered with a dark coating that you never attempt to remove since you don’t really care about what’s under it. Eventually, though, the sunlight hits your eyes and you’re forced to realize that there is more to existence than just yourself and your thoughts.

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*Image Courtesy Rein

A longer, short story version of this piece appears in full in the short story collection, You, Me and the Rest of US: #NewYorkStories. The book is available in ebook and paperback on all major retailers.