NEVERMORE

"Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday, Make a wish! I pray thee alive happily ever after. However, oh how I beseech, don't ever forget, to never wish upon stars foreordained unattainable." Prior to the final Christmas descending premillennial, December 13, 1999, in a green train, the slanting sunset hits his face, awakening him back to reality. The susurrations of the whispering girl in his dreams gradually fades in his heart, leaving naught but his long deserted, desolate life recorded in the diary book he had carried with him. As the last of the trailing wheels halt their voices, the time is evening, in the wake of memories that oughtn't exist, after a three-year truancy, Cheng Feng had returned to his hometown——Town Mo. So a new life begins. A life presumed to be dull and colourless, shortly becomes heartfelt as he opens his heart to the smiling people he meets. Yet at the same time, the world around him gradually moves towards an unpredictable, dubious future in those days and nights. As he faces those memories everlasting from three years ago and the people who perpetually remain within, the actuality of it all luminated verity. The ending had already been set in point from the genesises of these reminiscing episodes, as these choices were all his wishes. The ultimate Christmas of the millennium awaits its advent, gazing blankly at the blazing sunset on the horizon. Anon, the promise made by the lone person under the solitary sky had already been engraved in such sad colours. "God is dead in the fire of heaven."——Thenceforth Milan Kundera's words, everything was already over.