Joshua Brown

Miles Away From Dawn

The first time they reached out, I was laying in bed half asleep around 3am. It was a Thursday morning when I felt the watch vibrate on my wrist. The light from its tiny screen were sun rays scorching my pupils in the midnight of my room. I squinted to put together the words from its startling message. They were pieces to a puzzle which at the time, I didn’t know I’d still be trying to solve 6 months later. The sender, unknown, but the message read,