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Behind the curtain
Since 41° 59' , -71° 31', rising was such a failure (so far, no one who has read it has gotten it), I'm going to do something that a writer should never do, and explain. Then maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong.
Although the story is first-person, I'll call the narrator "him", if you don't mind.
The dream effects happen in the pre-dawn light. The moment the sun rises, the effects end.
In the final section, the narrator gets what he always wanted - the ability to fly. But he realizes that this, too, will end with sunrise.
Nonetheless, he goes straight up. When the sunlight touches him, the effect will end and he will fall to the earth.
He'll die, of course. And I hoped that it was clear that he knew that.
As for why he chooses to die...that's for the reader to decide, I guess. But since nobody got the damned story, I guess it doesn't matter.
So it goes.
Although the story is first-person, I'll call the narrator "him", if you don't mind.
The dream effects happen in the pre-dawn light. The moment the sun rises, the effects end.
In the final section, the narrator gets what he always wanted - the ability to fly. But he realizes that this, too, will end with sunrise.
Nonetheless, he goes straight up. When the sunlight touches him, the effect will end and he will fall to the earth.
He'll die, of course. And I hoped that it was clear that he knew that.
As for why he chooses to die...that's for the reader to decide, I guess. But since nobody got the damned story, I guess it doesn't matter.
So it goes.