There was a man who known as weird by everyone. He creates something that mostly people around wouldn't understand. To him, his creation is divine. He is one caring man that full of amazing imagination. He just can't stop thinking to improve his life and to make anything in his mind come into life.
One evening, the sun ready set to greet the moon, the man saw one woman figure far from where he stands, the woman just under the sunset waving her hand to him. The woman glows pure white. Even he unable to see her face clearly, he knows the woman actually smiling at him.
That night, the man who are late in his 20 of age seek his mother and told her about what he saw. Absolutely, his mother doesn't even bother to try to understand what he is saying, she just thought that the woman just his son imagination. She ends up telling his son to just look for a woman to marry as soon he can.
The man disappointed for his mother distrust on him. Next day, he told her mother that he's going to find the woman he saw because he believes that the woman calling for him. At first his mother worried about him but soon let him go because he is old enough to go out to have a journey of his own.
He man follow the sunset and every sunset he saw the woman figure. A day turn into weeks, weeks turn into month and nearly forty days of adventure seeking for the woman, he found a cave to sleep in. Inside the cave has a stone glistening at every crook and cranny of the cave wall and made the cave shine bright at night. The cave is not too deep, when he finally reaches in the end of the cave, he saw a stone shining bright. That's not all, the stone has distinct figure, it was just like a woman waving to greet adventurer. At that moment, the man realizes and kneel in front of the woman figure stone.
"Here you are, my lady. I finally found you. But why did you turn into stone before you meet me? What the meaning of all this....?" The man falls into sadness.
Something shining on the ground, he picks it up. It was some kind of a metal piece that coincidently looks like a hammer. He picks it up and then he looks at the woman-figure stone and it give him a new purpose. He is a creator who has talent that no one has. He decided to shape the stone and turn it into the living woman he always imagines to meet.
He starts his carving straight away, day and night, without sleeping or eating anything.
The first day, he shapes the stone close into a shape of a woman body. Her hand, her leg, her hip, her torso and head cover with wavy long hair.
The second day, he shapes her finger, her toes, her hair in detail.
The third day, he began to carve her face and perfected her body texture.
The fourth day, he smooths her skin as how human skin looks and feels like.
The fifth day, he gently creates her face as a young woman early in her 20.
The sixth day, he finally finishes creating her. She is beautiful as a goddess in everyone imagination. She is shine brighter than a sun, beautiful than a moon.
He put down his tools, resting his fatigue body and wipe his sweat. He gazing at his creation full of love wishing it could move and alive. It was already midnight; he was so tires that he slept soon as he laid down on the ground.
The seventh day, the sunrise brightly waking up all kind of creature. The man who was sleeping soundly in the cave woke by the smell of good meal. He wakes up trying to sat up, with a blurry eye, he saw a white figure sat beside him with a meal on their hands. He rubs his eyes to clear his vision, he was stunned as soon as he saw what is in front of him.
"It you! You finally here! Thanks goodness! I am longing for you." The man expresses his hidden feeling.
"Why are you so surprise? You are the one who create my body and give me life."
"Your voice so beautiful to hear it warm my heart." The man said in tears.
The man didn't even realize that he was dead after a whole week of work without sleeping or eating. The woman he saw in front of him is just an illusion in his afterlife.
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Dream Fantasy - Collection of Short Stories
Historia CortaEvery connection has its own way to show someone for who are they really are and who will they be.
