Short Weird Story : Standing Woman
it's getting hotter day by day. Last week in a place in Japan, the temperature was going up to 39 degrees Celsius. 39 is almost hazard. We can't do anything in a such a day other else watching X files series in a air conditioning room...or read a weird story or two.
Title : Standing Woman
It was the morning. I was walking on the underground passage in the city, on the way to my office. The passage was stretching from the terminal station to the city center, so a bunch of workers were walking with the face of no big deal at all. No big deal morning, no big deal work. It like a water flowing in the river. A water that flowing is never stay, always changing, but it seemed to be no change, always there.
But on that day, there's this irregular factor. A woman. I saw her standing in the middle of passage. Around her, many workers were coming and going, everybody were moving, but she was not. Wearing red cardigan and grey skirt, she was standing and making a face of agony, almost started to cry. Getting closer to her, I also noticed that she had umbrella in her hand, even it's clear sky day. I came to close, and slung a quick look on her, then passed. She was clenching her teeth, opening her eyes but seemed to see nothing in front of her. She was like seeing another landscape, hearing another sound, not the things around us. Different pain in the different channel, that's what she seemed to feel.
I wanted to stop walking to ask her. Why are you standing here? Something wrong on your body? What's use of umbrella? Can I help you something? But I couldn't. Walkers around her didn't mind about her, and she herself also didn't seem to mind people around her. So I couldn't make a crack on the ice.
I had seen people having sickness and lying on the street. Facing to such a scene, most of people would care and support them, or call the ambulance. But on this story, the situation seems different. She was indeed in some agony, but that's not what we could suppose, so they passed through to keep belonging to their own reality. Was she the real entity?