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The Red Sky
Bárbara M. González Garza
Juan Carlos López
It was an early morning, all I could see was a red sky and ravens flying all around the place. Among all the darkness in the sea there was a shining light at the end of the path. I was scared; I didn’t know where to go. Should I follow the light? Or should I go looking for someone else? Lots of thoughts came through my mind. Suddenly I was surprise of meeting someone that I might not like, so I grabbed a puff of breath and I got closer, while I was getting closer the light was vanishing until it was dark again. I swam, and swam until I couldn’t swim more, and when I was about to give up the shining light reappeared, and besides it an enormous shadow came along. A tiny and friendly friend appeared which was looking for her father who hasn’t seen after the Armageddon. I told her: “What do you think if we go to the darkest place in the ocean? Maybe he will be there. She didn’t answer, she just accepted by moving her head up and down, so we proceed. While we were heading down to darkness we couldn’t believe all the things we were seeing, tons of dead people and animals which eyes had a lack of life that I had never seen before in my entire life, and again the shining light disappeared. I started to get even more nervous about the things that were happening; we didn’t even know where to go anymore, it was like all of our hope of surviving just crashed. She started crying, and singing a song that went “I see a light, shining above me, shining above me”. She scared the creep out of me, but then again the light reappeared, and it looks like it wanted us to follow it. Then I thought: maybe it is a message of God who wants us to go somewhere and maybe there is the clue of surviving or something that could help us among this blurry panorama. So then the little fish reached the light and disappeared with it too, I was so scared. It appeared again and took me with it. We got to a really shinny place where this guy was who told us that we were dead just like all people on earth and we were condemned to be swimming without no reason forever.
