Work by Carlton Lieu

I
I was stuck in the corn field and the only thing I could see was more corn. It went on for miles and miles and the only thing I felt was prickly stems and leaves brushing my legs. As I walked further I could hear different animals and insects. Firstly there was the chirruping of the crickets and as I progressed, the rustling of the corn where rodents ran though it.
The clouds filled the sky like an ocean that never ended and I felt like just giving up. the finish line was not in sight. I was tired and hungry but I wasn’t desperate enough to eat a rat or the raw corn.

II
It had been a bad month for me. I was demoted from my job and I didn’t have a penny to spare. News came to me that my granddad had passed away. I ran though a whole box of tissues and even though my tears were now dry, I still missed him. I remembered as a kid I would chill with him, even spend the whole summer with him. I still couldn’t believe it. He was like my dad. My dad used to go to work and I had to chill with gramps.
I lay on my bed thinking about him. I took time off work to visit his house, knowing I was likely to get fired, but that was the last thing on my mind at that moment. I arrived at his castle and made sure that I spent time with the thing he spent his last days with. As I sat in his ‘throne’ the chair I was not allowed to sit on as a kid because he said I wasn’t big enough, I felt his spirit in the air. A cold breeze brushed my legs bit I wasn’t scared I was happy to feel his presence. The world had come back to colour and I felt better.