clueless

11/9/17

The baby blue monster cried.

His beautiful pale green-marbled, fluffy ball had rolled away.

His mother did not hear for she was deaf and blind.

She was devoid of feeling so the child thought. She could feel but only what touched her immediately. Depression and a life in a gilded cage being an experimental monkey for electric shock studies left her close to dead.

Years passed…

…Then her mate died.

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Baby monster cried inconsolably.

All of a sudden, the mother regained her sight.

The first thing she saw was the suffering of her child.

She offered help.

The child was too young emotionally to understand in the way she offered.

The child was too old to be nurtured in the way she offered.

Her hearing never returned. The little one was monstrous because he had learned from her how to be self-sufficient in a tragic sort of way. He was clueless about relating to other little monsters…

… until a little girl monster offered him a beautiful blue-marbled, fluffy ball.