The field-mouse that went to the city
Submitted by AE on Mon, 2003-11-10 09:12.
Written to cheer up another special friend of mine
Chapter 1
Picture the South-African countryside...barren...hot...and one happens to be cursed with a bit of a brain in the desolateness that is high-school. A social outcast, he who makes the occasional lecturer chuckle with humour that is beyond the average pupil and later student.
Until one day, he sees this girl - not like the girls in the magazines, but she laughs at his jokes and there are conversations.
Soon after, there's intimacy and shared emotions - lonelyness vanishes like a shroud and life has new meaning - the only goal being the continuation of this newfound bliss in eternal wedlock, and who knows, maybe even the spawn of more social outcasts.
Chapter 2
The City. Beyond anyone's wildest imaginations, the young outcast suddenly finds himself amongst more of his kind - previously thought impossible - it's fast and furious and oh so very flashy...but what he really didn't expect amidst the turmoil was the angel.
The angel had the power to crumble the foundations of his religion and brought light to eyes that were blinded by the long year
of desert. Shackled by his naive mistakes, he feels trapped and alone - his psyche challenged in a new way, a way pure logic had no answer for.
Chapter 3
What happens to the outcast, you may ask - and who is this angel? The tale has more roots in reality than I care to admit, dear reader - and the tale is still being written slowly but surely during our daily lives...so who knows?
The angel proceeds to shine to all that surrounds her, although her love is commited to another...
The outcast has a choice in front of him, that might, to him, seem desperate, alone and difficult, but it is one he has to make. Maybe it will be easier once he realises that what he has, is more than what others only dream of.
