Lost On Mars (2015)
“At the Homestead I worked with Da, and I had Hannah and Al and that was quite enough. Occasionally when we went to town I’d see other kids my age, but I never really had friends. Not to confide in or share with.
Maybe it’s weird Sook became my friend, what with her being a different species and all. To me she was just Sook. Our forays into the night never seemed like part of the life I led by day.
This nighttime creature was the most fabulous being I’d ever met. She was half-dream, half...-real.
On our third or fourth trip into the night, she talked to me a little more. Until that moment, when her chiming, golden voice bloomed inside my head, it hadn’t struck me as surprising that she hadn’t said much as yet.
‘Have you told your parents? Do they know you come out to see me?’ ‘No,’ I said aloud, and she turned those big purple eyes on me.
‘You needn’t tell them about me,’ she said.MoreLess
Maybe it’s weird Sook became my friend, what with her being a different species and all. To me she was just Sook. Our forays into the night never seemed like part of the life I led by day.
This nighttime creature was the most fabulous being I’d ever met. She was half-dream, half...-real.
On our third or fourth trip into the night, she talked to me a little more. Until that moment, when her chiming, golden voice bloomed inside my head, it hadn’t struck me as surprising that she hadn’t said much as yet.
‘Have you told your parents? Do they know you come out to see me?’ ‘No,’ I said aloud, and she turned those big purple eyes on me.
‘You needn’t tell them about me,’ she said.MoreLess
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