A Challenging Year

by purplecleric

This is a collection of my responses to the monthly challenges posted on Horizon. Some were word prompts, some 'complete the scene', all had a limit of 500 words.

1. Resolution

A/N - Word Prompt 'Resolution'

Resolution

Light years.

This is the distance between stars. It was the lengths they had travelled and the time it had taken to come this far. So very far. A measurement that was unable to encompass the changes within them or between them.

Spacials.

This is the distance from orbit to planet. The range a dying ship travels to its eventual demise.

Kilometres.

This is the distance between forest and the final showdown. The space between woods and would have been.

Metres.

This is the distance between friend and foe. It is a fundamental unit of length that fails to define who is what.

Centimetres.

This is the distance between barrel and blood. How far a blast travels until it severs the bonds of friendship, until trust and truth and lies and love are beyond measurement.

Millimetres.

This is the distance between two men. The distance between betrayal and loyalty; between a friend lost, a friend found, a friend lost again. This is the distance between the shock and the realisation. This is the distance between a sigh and a smile.

And the smallest distance of them all is one so small it has never been measured, never been named.

This is the distance between life and death.