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For Imaginary Garden With Real Toads Friday Challenge by Kerry O'Connor. Sorry for the Snafu Kerry.....but I love the prompt.
Living in a shadow doesn’t cause blindness or stop the body
from growing. It can cause pale skin and depressed vitality if one sees the
shadow as a dark cloak oppressor or soul sucking shroud that doesn’t match any
of the skirts your mother bought you for school. Living in the shadow can be
religious. Living in the shadow can be
secure. Living in the shadow can be comfortable. She stayed mostly at the
edges, reaching out with milky white fingers when a piece of tissue paper life
floated by. In the center of the
dimness, she built a collage out of experience that was as fabulous as any of
the world’s wonders. She placed her heart in the center and gave life to a
shadow universe that coursed and breathed in ways that the children of the
light could not understand. And when it
came time to leave the protection of the shadow, sunglasses and a hat provided
solace from prying eyes and curious thought processes until she could return to
the snugness of the shadows womb.
“You’re weird.”
“No, I am black.”
“Whatever.”
