The Soup Kitchen of the Mind

The first thing he saw when waking up was the brightest neon colors, perfectly stitched with a perfect landscape. Not only that, but everything looked familiar, but not the same kind of familiar as in “I’ve been here before, so it looks like I imagined it would”. He got up and looked around.

“What in the holy mother of fuck?” he said, as the world broadened in front of his eyes. The trees were a beautiful green, laced with vines, and growing the shiniest apples he had ever seen. The grass blazed across his naked feet, it was cool mountain air. He watched a train come out of a small cave in the distance, below what looked like a large kingdom.

“Hey! You okay down there guy?” he heard from the clouds above.

Nicholas heard a little snicker as she swooped down and landed directly in front of him. Nick’s face filled with excitement, joy, amazement, and happiness, but a lingering feeling of pain still crept through all of these happy emotions.

“Ha, you look like you’ve seen a ghost! Say, I’ve never seen you around.” She rubbed her chin and inspected his face from every direction. “Yep, just what I thought.” She said.

“Wh-wha-what?” Nick replied shyly.

“You look like you’ve never gone for what I like to call a “Rainbow Dash” She said, winking, with a big smile on her face.

The next couple hours were spent, well, “Rainbow Dashing”.

"Come on! Jump on my back!" She said, smiling.

Nicholas, again, shyly mounted the equine, and he was soon lifted into the air. Wind smacked against his face, gripping tightly around her body frame. They sped skyward, reaching speeds that he had never experienced prior. All at a brief instance, they collided with a cloud still lingering in the sky. The collision happened to be unnaturally hard, and Nicholas and the Pegasus separated slightly above the hole previously made. As they both floated upwards for a brief amount of time, they looked into each others eyes. Simultaneously, sparks, well, sparked; and they grabbed on to each other in a moment of pure bliss, making a mental connection through such a truly enlightening experience. Nicholas had never experienced such a thing, not in his whole life.

Eventually the “dashing” had come to an end, and they landed in a small field to let loose.

“So.. What exactly are you?” She said, obviously trying not to giggle her little head off.

“Uh-umm.. I-I’m a Nick?” He mumbled, with slight smile, but mostly shyness.

She fell over laughing, holding her stomach, and occasionally letting out a tear. She proceeded to do this for about five minutes.

“Oh boy “Nick” you’re a killer!” she said with her laughter slowly dying out, “But hey, that was really fun, but I have to get going.. I’ll see you around, that is, if you stick around.” And she was gone.

Nick began humming to himself. As he stared at the night sky, beautiful constellations,  and galaxies; he saw the universe was spread out in front of him. Out of all the places he could be, he had found his home. And deep in his heart, he knew his life would never frown again.