Ray the Sunbeam and the Long Way to Wake Up

Ray is a tiny new sunbeam with one big idea: to wake somebody up, though Old Beam warns him it is ninety-three million miles of silent, velvet dark to cross.

A sunbeam’s journey from the sun to a child’s window

Far, far away, in the fiery heart of the Sun, a tiny sunbeam named Ray was born in a burst of golden light.

Ray was small, but he was quick, and he was full of one very big idea.

"I'm going to wake somebody up," he announced to the other sunbeams. "Somebody special. Somebody who needs a bright good morning."

"It's a very long way," said Old Beam, a wise, warm ray who had traveled the sky for millions of mornings. "Ninety-three million miles, to be exact."

"That sounds like a lot," said Ray.

"It is," chuckled Old Beam. "But light is a fast traveler. And every journey is made of small steps. Come, I'll show you the way."

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Ray is a tiny new sunbeam with one big idea: to wake somebody up, though Old Beam warns him it is ninety-three million miles of silent, velvet dark to cross.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.