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White Crane

Kyle Hemmings

    On the sidewalk, Misty rescues the fallen white crane. Cradling it in her arms, she imagines that it fell from the top of the ten story crab restaurant, rumored to serve demons in the soup. A voice inside her keeps saying It’s dead. Spend your time doing worthwhile things—like shopping for parasols or teddy bears, chokers with charms, opaque stockings thigh-high, your favorite top hat with satin ribbon under the chin. It’s such a beautiful day.

    But Misty takes the crane home, sings to it, sleeps next to it at night. She has a premonition. She starts reading to the crane her love letters to an ex-boyfriend, the one who could never love her. He claimed she was too grounded. Slowly, over days, the crane’s eyes open. It struggles to get out of bed. Its features turn human—it morphs into the boy who could not love her. She dresses him, packs him a lunch. She says, Even though I still love you, I know it will be the same old story. You will never walk back to me.

    He stares out her bedroom window then turns. No, he says, this time is different. This time I can’t grow wings. She screams at him to wait. He crouches at the window and dives into the air. By the time he reaches the bottom, she has lifted her hands upwards and closed her eyes. She pictures the ceiling as glass and trap doors and whispers, imagines herself a crane, high in the sky, circling her only lover.

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