Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020 | Page 51

Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
Someone catches sight of him, and for once, takes a familiar and long glance. For some
reason, he hears distant shouts. He can’t stay here - he doesn’t belong. So he proceeds,
running naked out into the rain with no end goal in mind.
Model MMXX closes his eyes, feeling the battery life drain from him, feeling the water
wash over him, feeling alive with a crowd of curious eyes and eager arms faraway, knowing
tomorrow his positronic brain would be reset. But for once, he tries to imagine.
Dreamer.
He imagines a city where he belongs, a place where he lives. He sees it clear in his mind,
the dawn of the Greater Bay, with its dreamy skies and busy people; its bustling streets and
traditional delights and advanced technology and… He’s been sleeping his whole life, never
dreaming till now. It’s a dream of humanity, he thinks to himself. Oh, how beautiful it is
to dream!
He awakens.
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