100 Days of Stories – Day 36: HIGH RISE

“And the President’s Award for Prestigious Design goes to Matthew Chambers,” the presenter announces.

The audience stands to their feet with a thunderous applause.

A petite man approaches the podium and accepts the award. “My father often scolded me as a child because I constantly bumped into people as we walked around the city. I was infatuated with these structures coming from the sky, not knowing they were built from the ground up.” Matthew pauses. “He now lives in a high-rise condo I designed.”

He glares across the room at his father. “Whose head is stuck in the clouds now?”

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