Wednesday, December 23, 2009

PROLOGUE

The light was dimming. The distant voices seemed to be becoming even more distant. All he could could see through his hazy vision were obscure flashes of light. They reminded him of something. Nostalgia. The memories seemed to be drowning him, and he was ready to drown. Einstein's relativity at it's best. These ten minutes were going to be a lifetime.

The floodgates had been opened. He saw all that had happened years, ages, eons ago right in front of his eyes. Childhood, adolescence, fatherhood, mistakes, love everything staring at him. He could see those cold stares of refusal as well as his wet eyes would permit him to. An unendingly short walk down memory lane had just begun...