Bug

“You first.”

“I notice things.”

“In infrared?”

“People blink and I know what they really want to see. Your turn.”

“I hear things.”

“What, mosquitoes?”

“Things people say to themselves, or were about to say but changed their minds.”

“You’re like a bug. In someone’s mind.”

I stared. 

She listened.

Cate Gallivan

Cate picked up a crayon when she was two-years old and started writing. She hasn’t stopped yet.

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