Sky Blue by Dorothee Lang
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She loves shiny, colored things. Her glasses are pink. Her bikini is green. The gun in her hand is sky blue. She aims it at me, there, on the shallow side of the pool. There’s a wild mix of joy and thrill playing on her face.
Our eyes meet and I realize that I will be the one to remember this moment, while she will forget about it. But I don’t get splashed: she is ordered back before she can shoot. “Time for your swimming class,” her father tells her.
She lowers the blue gun. Water drips from its plastic barrel while her father inflates her beginner’s armbands.
Later, I see her in the water, struggling to coordinate her arms and legs. The blue gun is gone. The moment still floats.
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Dorothee Lang is a writer, web freelancer and traveller. She lives in Germany and edits BluePrintReview and Daily s-Press. Today, she plunged into content management code, and came across a module named “Token.Action183”. She still wonders about that one.
Recent publications include HA&L, YB, elimae, Referential, qarrtsiluni, eclectica, and for a silly reason, The New Yorker. For more about her, visit her at http://www.blueprint21.de.
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