A World Turned-A Dream Imagined

A storm had passed through. Image Adobe Stock.

Was this real? Did it happen?

I tried desperately to remember my dream. Snatching at the moments. It felt so magical. I was there but I wasn't. Nothing was certain and yet it all appeared in certainty.

I had fled to China. My parents had disapproved. But these weren’t my parents. These were people I couldn’t recognize. I’m struggling now to recall their faces. To conjure their images…