When You Were Young

She weaved her way to the door, feeling as though she were walking on clouds. Out in the night, she turned and set off to find Joseph. I'll show him, she thought.

She continued to wobble along the docks, running into someone. "Watch where you're going," she said. She spun away and plunged onwards. Where had she left the car? She couldn't remember. "Car? Here car, car, car, car. Come to Mommy." Nothing happened. "I'll just wait here," she said. She went to sit down on a crate, but missed, landing face-first on a pile of netting. She tried to get up, but her limbs became entangled in the nets. "Hey, who left these here?"

She stopped fighting and managed to roll over and look up at the night sky. The stars whirled around and around, elongating into comets before her eyes. She whooped with delight at this cosmic display put on just for her. "Who needs him anyway?" she said before passing out.