Filed under: My book in the making...
It was a dark night. At first glance it appeared no darker than usual, but after careful oberservation one would notice that a shroud of peculiar blackness had settled in that night. A translucent hue of yellows and pinks usually hung in the air until far after sunset, but tonight the air was opaque.
An ordinarily breathtaking view of the vast expanses of land rippling from the barn over several hills gently reaching the horizon couldn’t be defined without squinting your eyes tonight. It had faded by midday into a wall of night impenetrable by the eye.
Joseah and Miriam, both clad in garments more comparable to rags than clothing, doggedly stumbled into the barn after a harrowing journey that lasted nearly two weeks. The persistant, impermeable darkness made the last twenty six hours of the excursion extremely strenuous on the young couple. The two were left crawling at times, as the path underneath them was more often than not impossible to see while walking.
If the pilgrimage wasn’t trying enough for the two lovers, the addition of a third body exascerbated the difficulty of the twelve-day crusade exponentially. However, the third body was the sole reason for the expedition that uprooted Joseah and Miriam from their warm and comfortable surroundings that seemed no less than a lifetime away now.
The couple was both blessed and cursed with an unregistered, undocumented, and uncontrolled birth. Today, children are preprogrammed. Fetuses are grown exclusively in test tubes within labs today, and distributed to couples deemed fit to parent a child. Each child is perfect, stripped of the most minute of flaws, defects, or most importantly potential malicious intentions. This is done to ensure a healthy, productive human race. No time or money is wasted on humans that will serve no purpose in furthering the greatness of the species and the same applies to those who could prove destructive or detrimental to the engrained, ever-present sense of naive optimism true to the human race today.
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