Class Exercise, 28 June

Prompt: Write a short short using only one-syllable words.


Leaf was the one in the room with no light, the one who did not see when they all saw. Leaf was the one left while they all went out to see the sun. Leaf could not tell you why she was in the room with no light, save for what her ma had once said to her: you were the one born with no eyes. The day of the change was dark, like it had been since the day she was born, but a sound was in the air; a soft note, not a true noise. Leaf went to where she thought she heard the note, and put out her hand. She felt a thing, cold, soft, and as her hand went to its edge, she knew: this was what they all saw, all the time. This was how they spent their days, at this thing, with their eyes back and forth, to trace what they saw, to lift their hearts.