I Read Stories: A Future by Melissa Ostrom

 

A Future by Melissa Ostrom in Bodega

Beverley offers to show her future if we’ll show her ours. Our parents tell us we shouldn’t look. Beverley’s is huge and plain, kept under her bed as it won’t fit in the closet. Others are brighter, thinner, different.

There’s much to see.

Read This: To see what the children who have a future think of it
Don’t Read This: The metaphor turns abruptly from vague to pointed