Life Reader

by K.M. Shea

“C. S. Lewis said crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. So what am I going to do?”

“And when you threw your shoe at him,” Aron clasped his hands and looked at the ceiling, a dreamy smile blooming. “and screamed like a banshee…” “It was then that we knew you were our long lost third twin,” Asher finished. “Which would actually make us triplets.” The Montamos twins paused to muse over this conundrum.

“We should probably update our Facebook status to announce this.” “No one is friends with us. We rejected all the offers, remember? How about we make a tweet?”

Although you do know you cannot date until you are 42-years-old and married, right?” her father asked, suspiciously eyeing her.

“And see if Zappos.com has 24-hour shipping,” Asher added. “We are getting you practical boots.”

Raven held Fox’s gaze for an unnerving moment before she looked down to her book and read, “And at the same moment all the war-like creatures whom Aslan had lead from the Witch’s house rushed madly on the enemies line, dwarves with their battle axes, dogs with teeth, the giant with his club (and his feet also crushed dozens of the foe) unicorns with their horns, centaurs with swords and hooves.”5

“Don’t take it to heart,” he said, his voice level and serious. “The names people will call you: monster, freak of nature, brute. Don’t believe them. Just because they say it, it doesn’t make it true. It is what you think of yourself that determines your fate,” he said.