I felt a throbbing pain in my head and this funny sensation all over my body. My brain felt like it was boiling, then freezing the next second. I tried to move my body slowly but there were like sharp needles poking my body.
What is this bulky thing that I am resting on?
I tried to straighten my body but felt like I was going to fall down. Feeling a little unbalanced, I reflexively gripped the bulky thing and quickly tried to open my eyes.
Everything looked a little blurry at first, but it was so green all around me – leafy green, with glaring yellow light shooting through it. No, not that it was just leafy green, there were definitely leaves surrounding me, some even brushing my body. I could literally smell them – the grass-like smell, but better. With squinty eyes, I could see that they were all attached to branches around me and the pale blue sky was on the background. The scenery looked a bit peculiar to me and I thought I was in a dream, before it hit me.
Am I on a... on a tree? I am on a tree? What-- how come am I here?
I finger-massaged my head slowly for I felt a little dizzy – the kind that I never had before. I quickly grabbed the trunk that I was resting on for better stability and extended my neck to peek what was beneath me.
I was right. I was on a big, lean tree. There were other similar trees nearer, all sturdily lined up straight. I looked behind me; there were a line of terrace houses painted light orange with the back of the houses facing me. They all looked too familiar, I thought.
The sound of a motorcycle zooming behind me awakened me from my blurry thoughts so I turned back round. By the tree, there was a road stretched wide on the ground. Few other cars and motorcycles zipped through it. Standing few yard...
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...I sighed in frustration before closing my eyes shut and trying to clear my mind and think of happy thoughts. It was my habit whenever I felt stressed out and it never failed to help me.
I opened my eyes and took a deep breath. Well, the damage was already done and … the day was not going to get any brighter and the freeway was getting quieter.
It looks like the only way home now was a walk, though it was not going to be a short one. Stopping the passing vehicles for a lift was out of the question, as the hitchhiking culture is very alien in this country and it would be hard for them to slow down their car to a complete halt here – AES was nowhere near the area and the cars were all running fast.
So with a forced will, I stood up once more and begin the walk by the side of the freeway, following the usual driving route I take everyday.
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Out of place and defeated
remember our sacred connections, to transform that hollow tree into the sacred tree it was
When I found myself on my Feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining Prospect. The Country round appeared like a continued Garden, and the inclosed Fields, which were generally Forty Foot square, resembled so many Beds of flowers. These Fields were intermingled with Woods of half a Stang, and the tallest Trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven Foot high. I viewed the Town on my left Hand, which looked like the painted Scene of a City in a Theatre.
I neared an exit and pulled off the highway then rode down a lonesome road filled with empty cars and rubble on the street. I came to a stop when I arrived at a spot check, mandatory to enter the small settlement. Two flatbed trucks were blocking the road in, accompanied by guar...
We continued down the infinitely long interstate towards our destination. Thunder clouds continued to rumble in, like an ocean tide rolling closer and closer to the beach front. Within minutes the entire landscape was calm and dark. It looked like a total eclipse of the sun, and the once ...
I stared down at my hands, trying to control the shaking. My breathing came out slowly, if it came out at all. I felt like bursting into tears. I stared at the boards in front of me. My head was spinning, and my mind was racing. I couldn’t believe I had missed that break.
I looked back longingly at my car on the other side of the road, itching to run back to it
The forest seemed a bit different that day. It was darker even though the sun was still at the horizon. I heard a sound of branches break...
I began making my way home on the well-memorized path that I took practically every day, sighing when I thought about how I was one of the only seniors at my high school without a car. When I turned the corner onto my large neighborhood, a black van roared to life behind me—lingering a bit too close for comfort.
The floor was rock hard and chilly after I blacked out for a few seconds and my vision was blurred, as if I had just woken up early in the morning and I was still very tired. While I laid on the ground with my head pounding and my skull feeling shattered, I was like a detailed painting at a museum and people were staring at me in pure shock. There were sounds of gasps and passerbys asking if they should call 911 and if I was okay. At the time I couldn’t hear what they were saying because I was so out of it. You might be very confused as to why I was suffering on the floor, so I’m here to explain how and when I fell.
My sight flickered again, and slowly everything shifted. It started with my hands; replacing the usual l...
Light was the first thing that I saw. It came from the window where I always sat. The view was something spectacular. The first thing I always saw were the vibrant green leaves from the oak tree. Behind the tree, were rows of houses. None of these houses were unusually big but they all looked cosy. The room that I was sitting in wa...
I had driven home this way a thousand times before, but today would be different. The misty rain made the road slick as I steered the car through the slow, wide curve. It may have been the setting sun in my eyes, but it was probably a combination of the loud song on the radio and the slight yawn that escaped from my mouth. Regardless, a momentary distraction was all it took as the tires hit the damp gravel. The wet rubber and slick stones triggered the car to slide off the road to the right. In a panic, I jerked the wheel to the left, over-correcting the slide. Swerving across oncoming traffic, my car jumped over the drainage ditch and smashed down into a neighbor’s front yard. Continuing its dangerous journey, the car destroyed a lamp
The sunless sky covered the woods over the treetops which created a canopy over my head. The crimson and auburn foliage was a magnificent sight, as this was the season known as Fall. There was a gentle breeze, creating the single sound of rustling leaves. The leaves appeared as though they were dying to fall out of the tree and join their companions on the forest floor. Together with pine needles and other flora the leaves formed a thick springy carpet for me to walk upon.
The flight to London felt like it took forever, we were all so tired and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed, but we had to get off that plane and get on another going to Scotland. When we finally landed in Scotland, I couldn’t believe I was actually in a foreign country, I was so excited. The first thing I did when we landed in Scotland was to look through the window, of course what I saw were other airplanes and men running around getting luggage and showing planes to the terminal. After we got all of our luggage and the rental car, we walked outside, as I looked around, I could see so much green in the distance; so many different colors of green. I had never seen so much beauty in one place.