Two Curly-Haired Men

Lost fragments skimmed across the fuse. Sparks flashed. The car doors locked.

They had seen the silent darkness of space light up as a spacecraft spiraled out of control toward a planet;

They had seen fireworks erupt in the depths of space, and sheets of metal fall like rain, only to fly back up;

They were strangers who, trapped together in the deep longing people felt for them, felt as if they had known each other forever;

Their souls collided with the walls between two worlds in the gaps of frozen time, on the verge of death, already dead.

The wind was trapped outside the window. Below the high-rises, the crowds of the past had vanished without a trace. They had been left behind here, so they lit a cigarette, savored the moment, and burned out as the curtain fell.

Theme: Similarity and encounter.