Ectrodactylic An ectrodactylic is a hum...

Ectrodactylic

An ectrodactylic is a human whose fingers and toes are fused and form claw-like appendages. In some instances ectrodactylics have performed in circus sideshows. In this particular example, the woman we’re speaking of had a family. Each morning the teeth of her comb combed through the strands of her hair. Oatmeal was mostly what she and her family sucked up for breakfasts and, occasionally, on weekends there were pancakes. The children circled on their bottoms before Saturday cartoons. A husband, a man whose beard stubble could appear by five o’clock most days, hated the cliché five o’clock shadow and once fired himself from a job for squishing his knuckles through the coworker’s face who mentioned it. This husband did this with his own fist. But this man went to therapy over the anger that his rapid hair growth aroused and he applied and interviewed and his new job put him into better checks at the end of every two weeks. And the woman held a productive job as a middle school teacher in the small county in California where this family dwelt. All of the other teachers and even the principal came for the cake they shelled out each year for said woman’s birthday. This woman was an ectrodactylic and she dressed herself most naturally mornings with the sun spilling into her bedroom through the window. Before she quit smoking, often in her clawed hands one found a cigarette deftly handled, lit, and smoked from with ease. But now she merely pens her signature and other writing upon paper, and she maneuvers her modest compact front wheel drive
about the family’s modest town. This woman was not a circus performer and thus her life was quite normal. And that is what most humans on Earth are striving for.