Just outside our house stood an alphabet
forest where we could climb in all of the
letters and throw dots and lines and build
caves and whatever else we could come
up with. There was only one sign we must
not touch: the dot under the i. But one late
afternoon I became horribly antsy, and
finally I couldn't control myself any longer, I
rushed forth and dug wildly with my hands
under the forest’s largest i, and after many
feverish attempts I finally got a hold of the
dot which I pulled on so that the angels fell
and all of the i's in the forest grew and grew
and grew. Only the scalps were left of my
seven angel siblings. Panic-stricken about
being discovered and locked in the devil's
bell, I rushed to stuff the seven angel scalps
into my mouth and swallow them, but of
course, I was found out anyway, since
anyone can, of course, tell that the i's have
grown into the sky. |