Drabble Series: Distant

A child sees a starship taking off, its mighty thrusters bellowing as it forces its haughty path into the vast and unexplored. His heart is on that ship, and he must follow it. In that time, the child knew who he was and what he longed for, but lost in the freezing wastes of its reality, he is only alone, distant, far away, shivering. Yet, in his darkness, a memory of that brilliant afterburn is still glowing in his eye. The coldness of space, like a vampire, sucks away his life while he drifts through this dark void’s endless loneliness.