afterglow

noun

i) light or radiance remaining in the sky after the sun has set

ii) good feelings remaining after a pleasurable or successful experience

That’s why I shouldn’t have a beautiful dream. Because when I woke up, the beautiful things would be gone, my hope would be shattered and my faith would be questioned. In the end, I could only embrace disappointments and false hope. And I will feel sad because I’ll yearn for it more, I would greedily wish for that beautiful dream to come and greet me again when I fall asleep, even it’s not real.

That’s why I shouldn’t have a beautiful dream;

I’d rather have a nightmare instead.

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Like a routine, Danbi cried to sleep again that night. Pulling the duvet close to her forehead, she bit her lower lip till it bled and remembered how they were indeed true; they were indeed precious to each other.

Hoya stood among the forget-me-nots bush, with his skin showered with the golden spill of dusk. In her dream, she believed that she was falling in love with him all over again.

“Danbi, come on!”

And with that Danbi ran, through the thick wishweeds, on the hard stones stabbing her feet, t