#vss365 Very Short Story

The grandmothers say the older a story is, the truer it becomes. They say the story of Sun and Moon fighting is older than the Earth. It is so old that not only is it true, but constantly becoming true again and again.

The brothers sit by the fire, half listening to the words they know by heart. They jockey for position in the wan light, partly for warmth and partly from habit. Eventually one shoulders the other out and takes all the heat for himself. The dark one wanders the night, his face changing in his brother's reflected light.