CRIMSON SKY
I was thinking of the owls—pitch black owls, the color of a moonless, starless night, their bodies sleek and shining like it had been carefully oiled with gel, and their eyes also a dark shade of black with a tiny round ash at the outer edges.
Once, a long time ago, I looked into the eye of one of these black owls. One second I was staring at its eyes captivated by the twinkling light glowing within them, the next, I found myself lost in the dark dreary depths, severe pain lancing through me as I felt something wrenching out of my body painfully slow—I was so sure it was my soul leaving me.
I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t breathe, nothing. And then the feeling stopped just as
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