Weird Fishes

TURN ME ON

“I hadn’t thought about it” I spoke to myself “I never thought this could ever happen”. Never in my whole life have I been matched with someone. But I’m start to feeling something. This one person just appeared in my life and totally was re-built, in just one second. It was love at first view kind of. I feel like never before. In love. In my thirty-three years never had this feeling: butterflies in my stomach, not any appetite, continuous anxiety, always thinking on her. Many people have talked to me about this before, but I never was linked to what they talked, never knew the pure sense that feels inside. Scares me a bit: what if this doesn’t work? She is actually interested on me too, but many things could happen, probably she could be lying, it’s a game for her. But she looks so real when she sees me, how could I doubt about her? Nothing has done to me to have this thoughts. If we are in love nothing can be between us. I never believed in love because never was part of this, but now I can say it’s the most powerful thing in the world. Two persons in love is an unbreakable power. She is not kind at all, she is a bit cold. But at least I’m like her, that’s one of the many reasons why I feel we are for each other. I conquered her and she conquered me. She wants to rescue me and I want to do whatever she wants, go whenever she goes, make her the most happy woman in the world, because she have made me the happiest man in the whole universe. I can’t hold her back, that’s why I want to go with her. I’m at the very end of my way, she is waiting for me and I want to be with her. Never thought the life led me in this point. Standing in the very edge of the earth nothing could stop me to be with her in her arms, kissing her lips. I can’t wait. But I’m still thinking in this. I can see her now, in the bottom of this cliff, where she belong, forever. I’m falling, I’m falling in love for her. Now I’m truly falling, the bottom is getting closer, and I’m closer with her. Who could say the love of my life is actually death, and the only way to be with is dying for both becoming

PHANTOMS

“I realized I was through the wind… I was flying! Unbelievable. Last thing I remember was lying in my bed in the dark room after having a long and hard day at the work. Now, when I just woke up here I am floating on the sky, yellow like a dawn and I can only see the clouds below me. This is not the clothes I wore before I fell asleep, I just realized. I remember wearing my work uniform: a blue jeans with a black shirt. I was so tired that I throw myself in the bed without get in my pijamas, after that nothing I remember. Now I have white tunic, from my neck to my feet. If I would look myself through a mirror probably I would look like a phantom. But… what if I’m now one? Did I die? How could that happen? I just fell in my bed. Nothing hurts me at that moment, I was not even shoot, or was I? I don’t remember. But hey! I’m just floating! Actually I feel great, I can feel the wind in my face and control my flying. Whoa! I can spin over myself! This is terrific! I wish I can speak to this to Myranda, she totally will going crazy! I wonder what is she doing now, is she still sleep? She was when I arrived, I didn’t want to wake her up. Hope she doesn’t miss me and I hope this flight doesn’t takes me too much. By the way, where am I going? I woke up and I was already flying, how much time I’ve been doing this? I look around and I only can see clouds and sky, that actually it becomes blue now. The dawn comes from my back, it means I’m going through west, but to where? What if I try going to north… Ok, no. Something wants I only travel to west. If only there would be no clouds, I could see if, actually, I’m on earth. Oh wait! What if this is a dream? Well, the pinch doesn’t work or I’m awake. I guess I have to keep following. Hours have passed and the Sun is bothering me and I keep flying with nothing to see unless this blue sky and the clouds that reflects the light and bothers me! But, what is that? Finally I can see something. A dark hole! What the hell! And I’m going fast! What…? It turned to an island… An island in the sky? I can see now the palms, the sand and some bush around. Looks comfortable, probably I can land and know where I am, but I don’t know if should

I FOLLOW

“Take my hand” she asked me.

“What if this hurts me?” I yelled.

“Don’t be a fool, this is going to be fun, just jump with me and we can discover what all the world is talking about” she replied. Obviously ‘all the world’ was all the kids in the school.

The tunnel looked dark and with endless. She led me to this with tricks and lies just because she clearly doesn’t wanted to come alone. The tunnel became famous because most kids in the school were talking about it, apparently around the entrance many things happen, but actually no one wants to talk about it, they just speak with a suspicious enthusiasm that wonderful things are in this place. Nothing wonderful I could see in the cavern that holds the dark tunnel. To get into the ‘lobby’ of the tunnel we should jump into a 10 feet depth hole, down there already is darker.

“Come on, I got a lamp with me” she drop out from her jacket a yellow lamp.

“But how we are going to come back here? We got no a ladder or a rope with us”

“That’s what you think. The other kids told me that here should be around a rope linked to a stone. By the way, is good for you to remind me. Now we should look for it” she started to look around until she found the rope. “You see? The rope downs to the bottom. Now let’s go” She jumped without me. “Come on! It’s not that creepy as you think”

Standing on there I was afraid but she had done it and there was a way to come back so I had no choice. I jumped in. I felt cold. The tunnel looked so imposing and even darker than it looked behind. The lamp was turned on but was not of so helpful, the tunnel looked more endless, not a single light was seen from the other side.

“Let’s get inside” she proposed.

“You are crazy, I’m not going to enter”

“Stay here if you want to” and she entered.

The light from the lamp was lost after some minutes, the tunnel became dark again. I stayed there afraid. Then I listened some noises behind me: someone was stealing the rope! We had no a way to scape now, I yelled and by instinct entered to the tunnel. I called her but had no answer. I didn’t want to come back because I didn’t know what there was behind. I walked through darkness hoping to see some light from the lamp until I couldn’t the light from the tunnel behind me. I got really scared and decided to stay there and wait for her to come. So many time passed, I fell asleep, woke up and mysteriously saw a light. I shouted her name hoping was her with some help, looking for me, I had no answer again. I walked, the light was so blinding but served as a guide. Walked, walked, walked… When I got to the place where the light came, I was completely blinded. When I could open my eyes I could realize I was going…

TO THE EDGE OF THE EARTH

International space station. Thursday, February 29^th 2024. 20.23.56 UTC | The expedition we are in charge is to repair some issues on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. The two scientist on board were so close to find some hints to discover the presence of Dark matter in the universe, but an fault in the system couldn’t make it work properly. We were sent from Cabo Canaveral in an expedition called Sacajawea I to fix the issues, my partner. We landed in the ISS a few days ago. We couldn’t find any fault on the system inside, we must leave the station and make a probe around the hardware outside. The Russian astronaut and the Brazilian astronomer are the actual members of the crew, they are frustrated since the issue happen, the discover of the Dark matter is an important success for the humans knowledge and obviously, for their careers. My partner and I are about to get out from the ISS. The area is clear, despite the space pollution there is nothing obstructing our work outside, we hope nothing interferes out there. The only inconvenience is a solar eruption who will takes place 10 hours from this time. If there is any problem with the hardware, 2 hours before the eruption we have to come back to the ISS. Working with no gravity is something difficult so I hope there be no problem with the hardware outside, otherwise we have to move the working process until the eruption ends. My partner insists in finishing the task now if we can. Now we are preparing ourselves to leave the ISS. I'm now in the cabin, looking through the window, the Earth is in front of me, I'm watching the sunset going through the Atlantic Ocean crossing until the night arrives to all America. It's the second time that I'm seeing this nature marvel, watching the light turning on all around the planet, regarding the edges of the earth turning all dark, seeing the last fiber of light leaving the planet. I had the fortune either to watch an aurora borealis passing around the North Pole, close to Canada. If everything goes right, this will be the second time I will watch this event, now due to the solar eruption. I think this time the magnetic camp will make a great spectacle and I really want to be part of the event.