Lucid
“I walk in right before the bell and kids are freaking out because the poor little thing is slamming itself against the glass of a partially open window desperately trying to escape. No one knows what to do. Some swat books at it, many yell and disorient it further.
“Stop,” a calm voice says from behind me.
I can only see his profile, backlit from the open door. And then he walks into the room. It is a face of such strikingly unique beauty that it actually stops my breath. A beauty so compelling... that I admire it for its own sake without even fantasizing being close to it in a personal way. I gasp softly, but no one notices. That’s how completely he’s captured everyone’s attention.
He steps to the window with a commanding presence, and the rest of the class falls back. At this point the sparrow is fluttering its wings hysterically against the glass. The boy reaches out with his bare hands and gently cups them around the terrified creature. It seems somehow to calm at his touch.MoreLess
“Stop,” a calm voice says from behind me.
I can only see his profile, backlit from the open door. And then he walks into the room. It is a face of such strikingly unique beauty that it actually stops my breath. A beauty so compelling... that I admire it for its own sake without even fantasizing being close to it in a personal way. I gasp softly, but no one notices. That’s how completely he’s captured everyone’s attention.
He steps to the window with a commanding presence, and the rest of the class falls back. At this point the sparrow is fluttering its wings hysterically against the glass. The boy reaches out with his bare hands and gently cups them around the terrified creature. It seems somehow to calm at his touch.MoreLess
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Guest 2 years ago
Awesome story, wasn't expecting the ending, it kept twisting and turning the whole way through. I didn't know who was real and who wasn't until the very endWrite Review:
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