The Gargoyle
“Marianne Engel waved at a slack-jawed grandmother, who scurried off as if she’d been caught doing something immoral but still could not prevent herself from looking back over her shoulder twice.
Intellectually I understood the fascination with me, but emotionally I hated it. My anonymity is forever lost, because I am now outstanding in the most literal sense of the word. The fact that my body was hidden behind plexiglass and pressure garments only made me, in a way, all the more compelling. As ...in any good horror movie, the thing you must imagine is scarier than the thing you actually see.
I heard a mother in aisle eight tell her child not to stare. The boy, five or six, curled his little body behind the safety of her leg but his eyes never left me. The mother said, “I’m sorry. He’s, umm, curious and, ah, too friendly….”
“You shouldn’t apologize for that! You can’t be too friendly!” Marianne Engel bent down to look the little guy in the eyes. “You’re cute. What’s your name?”MoreLess
Intellectually I understood the fascination with me, but emotionally I hated it. My anonymity is forever lost, because I am now outstanding in the most literal sense of the word. The fact that my body was hidden behind plexiglass and pressure garments only made me, in a way, all the more compelling. As ...in any good horror movie, the thing you must imagine is scarier than the thing you actually see.
I heard a mother in aisle eight tell her child not to stare. The boy, five or six, curled his little body behind the safety of her leg but his eyes never left me. The mother said, “I’m sorry. He’s, umm, curious and, ah, too friendly….”
“You shouldn’t apologize for that! You can’t be too friendly!” Marianne Engel bent down to look the little guy in the eyes. “You’re cute. What’s your name?”MoreLess
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