MashedPaDaders

    “Smooth move Ex-lax “ the man said sarcastically. I looked up from the puddle full of my mail to see the back of man as he walked away down the street. The rain and the night swallowed him up before I could see any more. I muttered a curse under my breath as I bent down to grab my soaked mail. Most of it is ruined, but it doesn’t matter. After all I am leaving my apartment and my job. I only just escaped the police. I needed to leave before they could find out who I am and where I live. It’s not as if it was bad enough getting caught for grand larceny, getting caught for resisting arrest would only make it worse.

    As I look up at the night sky, standing in a city, I see a closed view. The stars I see are only the brightest and they are too few. Its like looking out of a fogged window; but I have looked to a night sky that laid bare the universe before me. A sky so full of stars, so full of pure beauty that it left me awestruck, looking  up with my mouth agape. A view so bright with light older than the earth lit up the night and made the dark feel less oppressive. As I looked up at the sky I realized how dumb I must have looked, staring wide-eyed like a small child at a sky people had been seeing for thousands of years.     “ There’s n