Stories in Five Sentences: Colourless

It had always saddened Martha that she would never see the world everyone else sees.

"Look at how that sunset is so beautifully intricate in colours!"

"Can't you see you all the shades of grapefruit pink, oh and that baby blue and how it just swirls together and makes that gorgeous lilac colour?"

Martha would nod and give a fake smile, saying, "Oh yes, it's very...beautiful."

She would look up to the sky, hoping to see something different and nothing but the same, constant and dull dark grey, black and white would appear.