Friday Fictioneers – The Crossing

~ neilmacdon
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

Where the two worlds meet, there is a line—almost imperceptible and thin as a fly’s whisker. Our world is softly rounded; their world is sharp and angular, but they have colour, where ours has none.

Maybe, and I believe this, if you achieve an immaculate slimness and then jump, you can enter, not the sharp world, but the line. Hurl yourself forward at the exact moment of crossing, and you travel that line forever. That is what I believe.

After months of fasting, I am ready. I step off the bridge.

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61 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – The Crossing”

  14. Lovely contrasts – rounded/angular; colour/colourless. I really like the idea of a thin line separating the dimensions, and having to become ‘immaculately thin’. And that ‘step’ off the bridge at the end! Wow.

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    There’s a song that mentions whiskers on kittens, but not on flies :) 

    On a more serious note–I have a dear friend who has suffered a terrible breakdown, a deep depression. She wants to die, but her way of doing so is to refuse food and water. She sees it as “fasting,” but I see it as a passive/aggressive way to commit suicide. I realize your story wasn’t intended to address such serious and heartbreaking matters, but it hit very close to home for me. Becoming thin enough to ride that spectral line is a reality for my friend.

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      1. Well, I guess my response wasn’t as far off the path as I thought, then. Anorexia is terrible, but my friend isn’t anorexic. Not to make light of it at all, but anorexia would be easier to deal with than a death wish.

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