” Wow! where did you get this one from?”
“Got it off the SETI project.”
“Wo! The one where they are trying to find extraterrestrial intelligence?”
“Yep.”
“Hey! Wait a minute…this looks familiar…isnt this…”
“(sighs) Yeah…It is. But how does that make a difference now?”
“Er…I don’t know…shouldn’t it? I mean…don’t you feel anything anymore?”
“You know what? I don’t know! I mean how would it matter now?”
“I don’t know…It should have…it does to me atleast!”
“Yeah whatever!”, he said, firing up the engines now. “We anyways have a long way to go…next I know, you would be cribbing about this place too! What does the picture do to you anyways?”
He looked deeply into the picture for a while and placed in in front of the dash. As they strapped in and blasted off, he finally said,
“It makes me feel homesick…”
(originally written for flashfiction.in, where I have recently started contributing. Check the site here. )
(originally written for flashfiction.in, where I have recently started contributing. Check the site here. )
