Stories

Monday, January 14, 2008

Rainbows and Unicorns (class project)

The rain left a mysterious rainbow in the sky that left a pathway for Billy, the unicorn, to pass onto. Slipping and sliding, the unicorn traveled upward until he reached the fluffiest white cloud in the sky. On top of the cloud, he skipped and jumped and rolled around for hours. The unicorn ran from one end of the cloud to the other, over and over again. He might have done that forever but he found another rainbow. This rainbow led to a dark gray cloud which was heavy with water. The unicorn slid down the rainbow and with a splash landed in the water. He swam and swam and used the rainbow as a diving board, sometimes doing back-flips into the water and sometimes doing front-flips.
He was having the time of his life. So much so that he did not notice that other unicorns had joined him on top of the clouds. They had found another rainbow and were using it to paint themselves. Some ran through the red and became red unicorns. Some ran through the blue and became blue unicorns. A few used the yellow to paint themselves yellow, but Billy was the only one who ran through the green band of the rainbow. The rest of the unicorns laughed.
"Green," they chuckled, " no cool unicorn is ever green."
Billy was not at all cowed by this.
"Why not," he retorted, "give me one good reason."
There was a pause and then one unicorn answered, "Because there has never been a green unicorn."
"There is now." replied Billy quite pleased with himself. He skidded down the rainbow, gaining speed as he went along. Soon the rest of the herd joined him, flying and flapping and sometimes dipping and climbing. No one seemed to care what colors they were anymore. They just floated along more like a bathtub full of bubbles than anything else. Perhaps, that's what happens when we stop trying to make sense out of things. Unicorns become bubbles. The more colors the better and the universe just spins and bobs with the planets in their own spheres, galloping as fast as they could with manes flying in the breeze.
"We're free. We're free." they yell. "No one can catch us now. No one can stop us. We'll do whatever we want, whenever we want. We'll fulfill our heart's desires and follow our bliss till the end of time. Or better yet, to the end of the rainbow!"

The End
Written by the entire class of the Night Session 1-9-08

0 comments: