Let Down Your Hair
“The tropical plants looked as uncomfortable in the autumn morning chill as the shivering models did in their bathrobes.My fellow birds of paradise disturbed me. The six of us were so similar in shape, height and coloring we looked like a matching set of dolls. The one or two who’d tried to chat to me had hastily retreated, sensing that while I looked like them, I was really an intruder in camouflage.Six days after my transformation, the woman in the mirror was still a stranger. I hadn’t grown i...nto the costume Emmeline designed for me. Instead I seemed to be shrinking, as if the real me was standing inside her on tiptoe, peering out through her blue-tinted eyeholes.Last night’s conversation pulsed inside me like a pair of tiny heartbeats. Emmeline’s first reaction was To Ryan? Not Are you OK? or What are you going to do? The response of a trophy girlfriend. Maybe if Ryan were wealthy she’d see these babies as a meal ticket, instead of a burden that would ruin my body and my chances of catching someone richer.MoreLess
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