iPod Giveaway #4: Entry #1
I lost it. Damn. It took me a full 0.5 microseconds to realize it was gone. As if it had evaporated in plain sight. I should have known it would happen one day, but I didn’t. And now the pain is unbearable.
It was a freezing cold winter day when it came to me. I was huddled inside, close to a warming fire, when suddenly there was a loud knock on the door. Startled I got up, a feeling of dread in my stomach. Not sure what to expect, I grabbed the fire poker. Another loud knock seemed to vibrate the room. With the poker firmly gripped I went to the door, and opened it slowly. There was nothing.
Suddenly angered at my fear I threw open the door and raced out. I could see footsteps in the snow, the distance between them indicating the person, or thing, had run off. Suddenly the cold caught me and I retreated, shivering, inside; bolting the door behind me. As I sat down at the fireplace I realized I was still clenching the poker. I got up to put it back and as I got up, I saw something from the corner of my eye. Something wrapped in gift paper, put inside the house while I was hunting my ghost. What reason there was to lure me out, only in order to present me a gift I did not know. But as I approached the gift, as I moved my hands to open it, I could feel the feelings of fear dissolving. It was a marvellous gift, odd, yet fantastic. A real piece of Art.
That is how it came to me, and it’s been with me ever since.
And now it’s gone.
