Gaioumon

It was about midday. I was in a crowd of about twenty other people that I didn't know but they acted like they did. We were walking alongside a two-way street with houses on the right and a plain on the left. The houses looked similar but there was some small detail that made it different. Different colored shutters, different shaped roof, a different type of doorway here and there but they were all white and made out of wood. They weren't evenly spaced out either. Some were close with a few yards separating them. Some were farther apart with a few empty lots about one or two acres in between with cows eating grass. We were walking on the si

I have often asked people where to start this story of mine since I’m no storyteller, but they all gave me the same answer, “The beginning.” Then I asked, “But where is the beginning?” They never gave me straight answer, but one person said, “Just pick a point to start from and go from there.” Then I thought ‘But what if that point isn’t the true beginning and people get confused?’ I thought about it some more and decided that I should begin with the start of my life since that’s all I really know. My name is Ruby and I was born on July 7. My mother like other mothers was p