American Science Fiction by Gary K. Wolfe

Author:Gary K. Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2019-08-08T18:19:27+00:00

April 13—Still didn’t go back to work at the bakery. I told Mrs. Flynn, my landlady, to call and tell Mr. Donner I’m sick. Mrs. Flynn looks at me lately like she’s scared of me.

I think it’s a good thing about finding out how everybody laughs at me. I thought about it a lot. It’s because I’m so dumb and I don’t even know when I’m doing something dumb. People think it’s funny when a dumb person can’t do things the same way they can.

Anyway, now I know I’m getting a little smarter every day. I know punctuation, and I can spell good. I like to look up all the hard words in the dictionary and I remember them. And I try to write these progress reports very careful but that’s hard to do. I am reading a lot now, and Miss Kinnian says I read very fast. And I even understand a lot of the things I’m reading about, and they stay in my mind. There are times when I can close my eyes and think of a page and it all comes back like a picture.

But other things come into my head too. Sometimes I close my eyes and I see a clear picture. Like this morning just after I woke up, I was laying in bed with my eyes open. It was like a big hole opened up in the walls of my mind and I can just walk through. I think its far back . . . a long time ago when I first started working at Donner’s Bakery. I see the street where the bakery is. Fuzzy at first and then it gets patchy with some things so real they are right here now in front of me, and other things stay blurred, and I’m not sure. . . .

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