The Man Who Tried To See At Night

“For attempting to make daylight at night, you are guilty. Your punishment: to be lashed to the sun for twenty-seven days and nights, to follow it in its revolutions.”
The prisoner with downcast eyes looked up to where a square of light seared through the single courthouse window.
The judge himself heaved thick ropes over the sun and pulled the prisoner up through the atmosphere to serve his fate.
His downcast eyes saw the world those twenty-seven days of luster. By the end of his punishment, he could see dark, underground corners of landscapes he had never dreamed could exist.