Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Prodigal Son

"How old are you?"

The boy held up three fingers, then--probably because he was bored of me--walked away and returned to his toy cars. He rolled them on the hardwood floor, making engine noises.

"Quite a kid you have there," I said to his mother, a nervous woman.

"Thank you."

She was visibly distressed, shaking.

"It'll be okay."

She looked at me. I don't think she believes me.

"Why don't we start with when it began?"

She nodded. "Two weeks ago," she said, then her eyes averted from mine and went wide.

I turned around and saw little Tommy giggling and playing with his cars, except they were floating two feet above his head, racing on an invisible track of air.

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