Lauren stared at the page, trying to follow the story as her
classmates read aloud but dreading her name being called next to read. She
loved the words and the stories they created, taking her to wonderful lands
where dragons roamed, witches caused trouble and a prince won the hand of a fair princess;
but these were only words she could access as an audio through the beautiful
tones of someone’s carefully chosen voice.
She loved the feel of a book but once opened was scared as
the words danced a jig across the page, letters jumbling themselves up, making
no sense at all. She wished the words would just stay still; long enough for
her to be able to make some sense of them, read them, enjoy them and understand
them without fear, ridicule or apprehension.
She turned over the page just as her classmates did, her
eyes adjusting to the page as the words tumbled and jumbled again and again
only for the class teacher to call her name for her turn to read aloud; words
that wouldn't stop moving, words that roamed and teased, words that were
unreadable to Lauren, words that were fated to remain forever a mystery, wrapped in an invisible blanket of anxiety.
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