100 WORDS

• The music was always so bright it hurt, and she would put her headphones on

  when she entered. She would dance, gently building her own small world,

  dreaming colour, the disco lights singing like people, the Macarena moving

  around her. 

   

   

   

  She saw him there often. Big glasses, big grin, skinny, fronting the conga line,

  making the support workers laugh. For once, in both their lives, he truly saw

  her. He was brave enough to come to her, and she was brave enough to notice.

  She turned her face up, and his kiss was as light and sudden as her heart.

   This 100 word piece was for a competition with the Readers' Digest, and I did not hear back from them at all even to let me know they had received my entry. So I figure it is mine to use as I choose, and it is my second piece of writing about the lives of people with disabilities.