#819 Little Brown Mouse- Tunde Olaniran
Thomas developed a special ability, although he sees it as a burden and his family and his doctors see it as a mental problem. He is a seer or sorts. When he touches somebody or an object handled by somebody else, he can see thoughts from their minds. The process is mentally jarring, and what his physical self experiences can best be described a seizure. One day he has an episode and falls in front of his house as a strange apparition appears that he thinks is death.
“Thomas’s nightmare spoke to him from beneath her veil. Her eyes were beautiful and terrible, and he knew they would see him no matter where he ran or hid. Red and gold layers moved like water, and she floated toward him. The fan of long, shimmering spines atop her head grazed the doorway, trembling delicately.”
The apparition is no death but something far greater and enlightening. If Thomas can just let go, he can use his “affliction” for larger things. What most see as an abnormality, others can see as a blessing.
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