The Color of Last Period

Since the age of seven the narrator has seen colours around people, green for years and red for death, and the first day of school is never simple.

Colors

Everyone loves the first day of school.

That is what adults say, anyway. They talk about clean notebooks, new teachers, and the chance to become a better version of yourself. They never mention the smell of floor wax or the nervous silence before the bell.

They certainly never mention how hope can look different when you already know who will live long enough to enjoy it.

I had been seeing colors around people since I was seven.

My mother was green. Deep green, like pine trees after rain. My father was green too, though a thin yellow thread had appeared near his left shoulder after he bought a motorcycle. I cried until he sold it.

The yellow vanished a week later.

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What is The Color of Last Period about?

Since the age of seven the narrator has seen colours around people, green for years and red for death, and the first day of school is never simple.

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Who wrote it?

Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.