Telling it all
Abbey started at the beginning and told it all. Once she started, she found she couldn’t stop. It all came tumbling out: her fears of being found out along with the fears of not even knowing why she was the way she was; the way her skin could be controlled to the way her Hair couldn’t; the rapist and the swim in the ocean, which had been so exciting but which she had never tried again for fear that it might not work a second time; the odd nightmares she had had over the years; strange images of explosions and an older woman, perhaps her mother, getting out of a car with two men and being shot by one of them; dreams of falling; and the feeling of being a freak of nature. She had seen enough TV to fear what would happen to her if the government ever found out about her. It fe
