“We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.”
-LeeAnn Taylor
Jed: Do butterflies scream?
Erica: What?
Jed: Butterflies. Do they scream?
Erica: I think they do.
Jed: But they're really pretty.
Erica: [smiles] They do, Jed. I guess. Just not in a frequency we humans can hear.
Jed: But they're like, really pretty. Like the beautiful sort.
Erica: You really wanted a 'no', didn't you?
Jed: Yeah.
Erica: Well Jed, that's kind of the irony.
Jed: I don't get it.
Erica: Metaphorically speaking.
Jed: .....
Erica: Beautiful things scream too. And no one hears it. Or worse, ignores it.
Jed: But why would they do that?
Erica: Because these things keep the world alive. No one wants to admit that they break too.
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Freshwater Pearls
Short StoryPearls of wrath and pearls of glow. Pearls of wrath and pearls of scorn.
