Dreams and Nightmares Art Show

For this event I showcased my own creation of an art piece called the human collage.

Short Story I wrote called Fate Or Not

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Destiny dipped her foot in the water by her water fall.

Suddenly, she was interrupted by a guy that tapped her on the shoulder.

“Hello”,” I couldn’t help but notice you,” he said.

You looked so beautiful with your long white flowing dress and your shiny hair.
Destiny, stunned whirled around.

He peered at her closely and noticed right away that she had a clear crystal star on her forehead.

“Excuse me, who are you”? And, what are you doing here she said in a sly voice.

“Oh, allow me to introduce myself,” I am Pedro and I couldn’t help but notice you from across the way, you just stood out like this beautiful flower and as soon as I saw you I knew I just had to come over and say hi.

“Look, I am glad that you find me attractive but I just want to be left alone,” she said in an impatient rude voice.

But, Pedro pleaded, the moment I saw you I felt something, something real like a connection, love at first sight perhaps.

“What, that is ridiculous”, she said.” Love at first sight, it doesn’t exist you know, theirs no such thing.”

Destiny peered up at him and looked him right in the eyes, immediately she started to feel her body shift in a way that was foreign to her, she felt tingly in her heart and her stomach churned sure enough it was love she felt.

She got lost in his eyes for a minute then felt her heart open and immediately she snapped herself out of it and backed away.

“See, he said, you felt it too”, I just know you did.

“I felt you feel it!”

“I didn’t feel anything of the sort,” she said, I don’t know what you are talking about.


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Pedro sighed with frustration and said, “I am so lonely,” “I have been isolated for so many years,”

“ I yearn, yearn for love,” yearn for companionship and I have for quite some time now ever since my mother died, and I abandoned myself in the tower near your
waterfall.

Today I got enough courage to go out, and I see you, this beautiful women that I can’t take my eyes off of.

“I feel it is fate that I saw you, love at first sight.”

Destiny looked up at him surprised,” abandoned,” did you say that you abandoned yourself for years?

“Yes,” he stammered embarrassed.

Destiny couldn’t believe it, she too had abandoned herself for years after she ran away from home due to being neglected and not touched or loved very much by her family members.

Should I tell him she thought? There was a long pause…. Then she took a deep breath and said,

“Well, I too abandoned myself here,”” As a matter of fact I live under the water fall, and have for 12 yrs.”

“Really?” He said.

“So have I .”

“I have lived in the tower here in Prog hidden deep in the forest for 12yrs alone.”

“Why were you alone?” She asked.
“Because my father abandoned me when I was really young do to thinking I was a freak because of my power. “ he said.

“Power,” Destiny’s eyes widened.

“What do you mean power?”

“Well, ever since I was young I learned of this power that I have and that is I am able to stop and start the world with my hands. “

“The first time I did it my dad freaked out thought I was dangerous so he left and I never saw him again.”

“Then I lived with my mom in the tower until she died of cancer.”

“Oh, I am sorry to hear about your mom,” Destiny said.

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“That’s ok,” thanks Pedro said.

“Well, I think it’s strange how you have a power because I have a power too,” Destiny said.

“Really,” Pedro leaned in closer intrigued.

“Yeah, as a matter of fact I am able to walk on water without falling through.”

“Wow,” cool he said.

Destiny continued,“ I never had it since I was a kid like you but when I ran away from home do to being neglected I came here and would go into the water to cleanse my pain I felt and I kept doing it until one day I discovered that I could walk on water.”

“ I don’t know how I got this power it’s just happened.”

“ It’s magic you know.”

A light bulb went off in Pedro’s head.

“ See, we are meant to be!” he exclaimed.” Look how much we have in common!”

“Oh,I am so happy I found you,” I longed for this moment for a very long time.

“Look,” just because we have a couple things in common doesn’t mean we are meant to be, as a matter of fact I don’t want to be with anyone, I am quite happy being alone.”

“What, how could you say that?” Pedro said confused.

“I just did.” Destiny said.

“I am happy being alone with my beloved waterfall and my power that keeps me going.”

“I don’t believe you,” Pedro stammered.

“Well, believe it,” now if you don’t mind I’d like for you to leave me alone!!!
With that, Destiny motioned for him to go away, heart broken Pedro turned and walked away.

A couple hours later Pedro decides to try again so he came back to Destiny with flowers in his hand.

“These are for you,” he said.

Destiny spun around.

“What, you got me flowers, how could you?” She said.

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“What, what do you mean?” I don’t mean any harm by it, I am just trying to be nice,

“Here, just take them, the least you can do is smell them.” Pedro said.

“I thought I told you to leave me alone,” Destiny said angrily.

Before she could say anything else Pedro put the flowers in her hand in hopes that she would smell them this would calm her down.

But, instead of smelling them DESTINY throws them back at him and pushes him meaning to push him away from her in hopes that he would get the point that she doesn’t want to be with him, but as she does this, she pushes him to hard and he accidently falls in the water and can’t swim.

“Oh my god, destiny screams,” “Pedro”” Pedro”,” I’m so sorry!”” Are you alright?”

“I can’t swim” he screams, “I am going to die in here!!!”

“No you won’t,” “ I’ll save you!” she yelled back!

“What you’ll save me,” “I thought you didn’t care about me!”

“Oh shut up,” it is what it is!”

Well……..hurl…….with that, Pedro was caught off my him loosing strength to tread water, he began to sink to the bottom , his body felt weak and lifeless, this is it, he thought, I am dying this is the end for me.

He closed his mouth and felt as his airway passages closed, then everything went black…..

Just then, Destiny walks on the water and finds Pedro. Star jewel glowing in the middle of her forehead, she asks the water to separate where Pedro is; the water obeys her and does just that.

Destiny sees Pedro lying in the sand at the bottom, she walks over to him and scoops him up in her arms and carries him back to her home.
She sets him on the ground and then asks the water to go back to its regular form. Once again, her star jewel glowed on her forehead and the water did just that.
She turned back to Pedro, she touched his face, and it was cold and clammy.

“Oh god,” I am so sorry she said.

“This is all my fault!”

She laid her head on his chest and noticed that he wasn’t breathing.
“Please Pedro, come back to life,” “I do want you,” I want to be with you!”

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As she said this, her star jewel lit up, and some warm loving energy flowed into Pedro, as this happened, she began to feel his body warm up.
As soon as she felt this, she gave him mouth to mouth and he coughed.

“Oh, Pedro your alive!” She said,” I thought you were dead! “

Pedro weak and disoriented slowly opened his eyes, and began breathing.

“Were….were am I?” He stammered….

“What, what happened”?

Just then he peered up at Destiny, and then it all came back to him.

“You, you pushed me,” he said.

“I fell because of you!”

Now, fully awake and in shock, he stood up and broke free from her grasp.

“How, how could you?” He screamed angrily.

“I tried to give you flowers and then you pushed me!!”

“I I I’m sorry,” Destiny stammered,” I didn’t mean to, it was an accident. “

“Accident my ass,” he said.” If you didn’t push me I would have never fallen.”

“I know I am sorry;” I made a mistake, destiny pleaded.

“Please forgive me!”

“I saved your life even though I pushed you,” I do like you, I do care for you, and this has proved it to me!”

“I don’t care”, he screamed, you never should have pushed me!!!

“Forget you,” he called over his shoulder, you ain’t worth it!

“I never want to see you again!”

With that, he turned and stomped away heading back to his home. As he walked he thought about just how mean it was for Destiny to push him like that once he put the flowers in her hand. ‘Why did she do that?’ He thought.

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She obviously doesn’t like me. If she did she would have never pushed me. Well, screw her, we weren’t meant to be anyway……

His thoughts were interrupted by a glowing light that appeared in front of him.
The light looked like millions of crystal stars. As he peered at the light closer he saw that the stars were starting to take form and they were forming into the shape of a women.

Once fully formed Anastasia appeared.

He noticed that she was wearing a sparkly, long blue cloak that covered her head. Her white hair peeked through the sides. He guessed she was women in her late 50’s.

“Hello,” she said in a perky friendly voice.

“Hi,” he said.

“Who are you?”

“Well, I am a fairy god mother she said in a cheerful voice.”

The minute she opened her mouth it reminded him of his mother. Instantly, her sweet calming voice made him smile.

“Wow,” you remind me of my mother, he said. She’s dead now, he said with a sad look on his face.

“Oh,” I am truly sorry to hear that! she said.

“Thanks” he said.

“Um, what are you doing here” he said.

“Ah yes,” good question she said.

“I am here to help you with Destiny” she said.

“Help me,” he laughed, “oh that’s hopeless” he said.

“She pushed me”……Anastasia cut him off.

“I know what happened” she said.

“And that is why I am here,” to help you so you guys can be together.

“I know you are angry about her pushing you, but you have to understand, because she didn’t come from a very affectionate family she tends to push love away as a result.”

“It’s not her fault, you know.”

“ She just hasn’t learnt how to accept love that’s all. Her family didn’t touch her much when she was young so she not used to it.”

“But, I do one thing,” she did save your life, and that means that she does care for you!”

“Now that you know that she doesn’t mean to do this to you, this should help you forgive her for pushing you. And, please be thankful that she saved your life, you could have died.”

I will show just how much she does care.

Anastasia retrieved a star wand from the pocket in her cloak, she move it around in circles, show us Destiny she said.

With that, Pedro was amazed to see that a port hole opened in the forest and he could see Destiny.

She was crying, her tears hitting the water like poisonous acid.

She looked so sad, so lonely.

“See,” Anastasia said, “she needs you.”

“She needs your love and you need her love.”

All of a sudden, Pedro felt his heart start to open and he felt compassion and love for destiny instead of anger.

“Oh my god,” he said. She saved my life and I didn’t even thank her.

“I feel like such a moron.”

“Well, go to her now and let her know, now is your chance”

With that, Anastasia disappeared.

Thank you Anastasia, Pedro thought. Thank you for making me see.

Pedro headed back to Destiny but as he approached her home he noticed that she is no were to be found and her star jewel was on a rock beside her home.

Puzzled, he walks over to the star jewel and calls out her name.

“Destiny, were are you?”

There is no response.

He picked up the star jewel put it in his pocket and started walking back towards his home thinking maybe she went looking for him but as he approached the pathway that leads to his house he sees her lying their passed out.

“Oh my god,” what happened? Pedro screams.

He knelt down beside her and held her head in his arms.

“Somebody help!!!” “Please help!!!” He screamed.

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All of a sudden Anastasia appears.

“Oh thank god it’s you,” Pedro says.

“Something happened to Destiny!!!”

“She’s passed out!” Pedro says.

“Oh dear, I was afraid this would happen,” Anastasia said.

“What do you mean?” Pedro asks.

“You see without love the star jewel looses its power and Destiny grows weak.”
“ You hold the key to keep her power strong.”

It is with your love that she is able to be more and more powerful.
You see the more love she receives the more powerful she get’s and the more her power is able to heal her.

What you have to do now is to place the star jewel in the middle of her forehead, once you do this the star will glow and then Destiny will be awakened.
Pedro removed the star jewel from his pocket, he walked over to put the jewel on Destiny’s forehead but, just as he does this Anastasia grabbed it out of his hand and disappears into thin air.

“Pedro shocked,” cries out!

“Were did you go? “

Their was no response.

Pedro grasps Destiny’s hand, her hand felt so cold, so lifeless.

“Oh, Destiny”, I’m so sorry, I should have never left your side, I should have forgiven you! I am so sorry!

“I love you!” “I do love you!”

Just then, Anastasia appeared.

“This time she had an evil look in her eye!”

“It will never work!” She said!

“I now have her power!” “You will never be able to save her now!”

“I finally have the power I have been seeking!”

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“You see, this jewel allows the person in possession of it to be healed from pain of their past by granting them a power that allows them the ability to overcome it.”

“In Destiny’s case her ability to walk on water and heal her pain with it as well.”

“And now I have it!” “And now I shall be healed!”

“No!!! “Please!!! “Pedro screamed!!!”

“Destiny will die!!!” “Her pain is to strong!!!” “She needs the jewel to keep alive!!!”

“And you don’t think I want to heal my pain?”” The pain I suffer from everyday!” exclaimed Anastasia.

“Everybody thinks, fairy godmothers are such nice, loving warm people that have no pain and no worries and that were perfect.”

“Well, it’s not true, and it’s time for me to have my victory to be happy, to help myself instead of helping others all the time!!”

“I am sick of helping others!”

“No, please Pedro pleaded again!”

” Their has to be another way!”

“Their just has to!”

Just then Pedro thought of his special power he had, the ability to stop and start the world with his hands. Although he had this power, he was afraid to use it and hadn’t used it in a long time because his father had left him because of it and it made him feel ashamed to ever use it again.

He wasn’t even sure if it would work but he figured he would take a chance.
Letting go of Destiny’s hand he lightly kissed her on the lips and softly said, “I’ll save you, I promise!”

Then he raised his hands , and said, “I command you to stop the world so that this fairy god mother will stop dead in her tracks so I can save Destiny.”
It worked, sure enough, the trees stopped swaying and the birds stopped dead in their tracks.

But, for some reason it didn’t work on Anastasia, she was still moving, although it did threaten her because she was clutching her star wand for protection.

“That’s it,” Pedro thought.

“It’s her star wand that is protecting her from my power.”

“I have to find a way to take it away from her.”

Holding that thought, he all of sudden charged at Anastasia.
She jumped startled, and tried to use the wand to protect herself but before she could do this, Pedro grabbed the wand away from her.

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Stunned she yelled,” give that back!”

“No he said, not until you give the star jewel back!”

“Never”, she said!

“Fine then I won’t give this back!” he yelled.
With that, he threw it on the ground as he did this, he yelled, I hate you fairy god mother I should have never trusted in you!

All of a sudden the wand started to light up.

He had done and said this not knowing that this would cast a spell on her!
Apparently, retrieving a wand from a fairy godmother that you don’t trust in and saying this at the same time as throwing it on the ground causes her to loose her positive power and become stagnant.

Because this was said, it did just that!

The fairy godmother froze and was unable to move.

The star jewel fell from her hand.

Pedro caught it just before it hit the ground and smashed in a million pieces.
Once he had the star jewel in his hand, he went over to Destiny and placed the jewel in the middle of her forehead.

The jewel started to light up.

Slowly she opened her eyes.

“Oh, Destiny he said thank god you are ok.”

He leaned over to kiss her on the lips.

But, Destiny now fully awake, rolled away from him and stood up.

“How, how could you do that to me?” She said.
Pedro was puzzled.

“I remember what happened,” You, you left me!”

“I I I’m sorry”, Pedro stammered.

“I was mad, you made me fall in the water!”

“And you wouldn’t forgive me!”” Why!”

“I don’t think I can be with anyone who doesn’t forgive me!”

“She turned and started to run away!”

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“Destiny wait!” He called after her!”

“Please wait!”” I love you!!”

“I just saved you like you saved me!!”

“Please, we are ,meant to be!!”

“Don’t you see?”

“This was meant to happen to show us how much we really do care for each other, even though it is hard for us to love or receive love because of our pasts.
Once Pedro said this, Destiny stopped dead in her tracks.
That was true, she thought.

She knew that it was hard for her to love or receive it. She hated it but it was true.

Once Pedro caught up to her.

“She turned and looked at him and said, I want to love you, I do, but I just don’t know how.”

“Neither do I,” he said.

“And that’s why we are in this together.”

“We can help each other let the other person in and be loved.”

“I feel that it is fate for us to be together, how ever much we push each other away and pull each other back in.”

Just then, Destiny took hold of Pedro’s hand and, said, “I forgive you”
Pedro smiled and said, “I forgive you to!”

All of a sudden, they both started to feel their hearts open and love flooded their bodies.

They looked in each other's eyes and at that moment they realized that as long as they had each other and had a mutually understanding of each other’s problem they’d be ok.

Pedro leaned into Destiny and they both embraced each other and kissed each other passionately on the lips.

Then they walked hand in hand happily back to Destiny’s home.

THE END