In The Dream

We started out as children playing in a world with open meadows and rich dark forests.

Then the aliens landed.

For a while we didn’t see them, and we made our plans to resist their invasion.

When they arrived, they weren’t what we expected.

They walked into the buildings where we hid, smiling and offering us beautiful clothes.

They were handsome adults, and offered us a few projects to do together.

We were going to do a lot of projects, they said.

When we woke up, we were fifty years old.