a short - the sun
written by Maria L. Pomponio



The sun finally came out.

It had been hiding up there for days and Jodi was hiding along with it.

Working in her dark office she didn’t realize how depressed she had become until the light penetrated the darkness.

She sees what she hadn’t for days.

Life was happening despite her covered gloom.

Somehow now the light makes it bearable and it keeps getting brighter.

All at once her spine is breathing in new life again as the sun reflects back into her squinting eyes.

Jodi thinks 'it’s so bright, how could the sun possibly hide herself so completely'?

She hates it when the suns rays don’t quite connect through the clouds and she has to work hard to find them. She can’t get that direct contact.

But now with the sun shining on her face, Jodi feels like spreading her wings and letting them dry on a hot rock.

She eases into a smile.

Pretty soon she’ll spring off the edge of that rock and fly high up above it as the sun warmed air holds her up.

Her sun came out today.