The sun sets behind the mountains. Blue clouds linger before fading into the darkness. The house across the street has its lights on. It doesn’t look real. It looks like a house on a stage or on a set of a show. I see no people in the windows, maybe that’s why it looks out of place. I shift my head to one side, cross my arms and wait. Wait for life to pop up or a light to turn off, any sign that life exists inside those walls. No one comes to wake me from the play forming in my head, People dancing through rooms, laughing, yelling, and loving. Never fully understanding each other living with a little bit of resentment, a dynamic that plays in my head often. I snap out of my daydream and take a photo with my phone, To remember this sunset, to remember this peculiar feeling formed from an offset image.
Kelly Severseike 