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The letter

  October 31, 2006

  Dear Allan,

  You are aware, I am sure, of an unusual happening eleven years ago. Remember Georganna May Grimwright's interview that became a You Tube and media sensation.

  Georganna May was in the middle of a Fairytale Review download. Suddenly in her living room in Golden Aster, Wyoming, there appeared thirteen people claiming to be from Fairy Land. They told Georganna that the Fairy Godmother had again protected Sleeping Beauty from the Wicked Witch. The deflected evil spell hit a stone wall in their village and opened a portal. A few curious villagers stepped through.

  Before the Wyoming authorities arrived they all ran away and the portal closed. None were ever found because it happened in a sparsely populated rural area.

  When Georganna May told what happened it was treated as the ramblings of an unbalanced mind. After Georganna May's treatment, I am not sure it is wise for me to tell you about the birth of an unusual child at Mount Killen Hospital in Story Creek.

  Last week Nurse Nancy Brown took a child born at four minutes after four off to weigh and measure. He weighed eight pounds and seven ounces. He was nineteen inches tall.

  As Nurse Nancy Brown placed him back in his cart, the baby hiccupped and turned a bright Fire engine red.

  "Strange," Nurse Nancy Brown's pencil wrote on his chart and hurried off to tell Head Nurse Ruth Matthews.

  As Head Nurse Ruth Matthews looked, the baby hiccupped and turned yellow green. Head Nurse Matthews erased the word strange on his chart and wrote, "Most unusual."

  Doctor Alfred Wiseman came by to join the crowd and looked as the baby hiccupped and turned light purple. "Most irregular," Doctor Wiseman wrote on his chart.

  Head Doctor Joe Landli came to see what the fuss was about. Nurses and doctors crowded around to watch the baby hiccup thorough pink, red orange, yellow green, yellow, and violet. With each new color, the people gasped, "Oh!" Doctor Landli wrote, "Different."

  Floor Administer Joan Corland watching an orange hiccup exclaimed, "Oh my," and wrote, "Out of the ordinary."

  "That is rare," wrote Hospital Administer Davis Jones after the baby hiccupped through sky blue, yellow orange, and light violet.

  "Let me take the child back to his mother," Nurse Nancy Brown said. As she started pushing his cart through the crowd a hiccup changed the baby's color to a light rose.

  The crowd followed Nurse Brown and the child down the hall. Along the way three hiccups changed the baby to reddish pink, golden orange, and finally to a normal and pleasant pink.

  Nurse Brown erased all other comments and printed, "Pink," on his chart and handed the baby to his mother. The child clutched tight his mother's finger, smiled, and those in the crowd all said, "Ah."

  Then, still clutching his mother's finger the boy child had three quick hiccups and stayed a soft pleasant unchanging pink.

  Three days later Timothy Neon Alden went home with his mother and father. All of the hospital staff came to watch.

  Later, I heard that Timothy Neon Alden was given the nickname "Timmy" by his two proud older brothers.

  Yours truly,

  Garen

  Part two

  Free verse poetry

  Three

  Poem: "in lilac time" was written after my grandson discovered the delicious smell of our row of lilac bushes in bloom. The lilacs we got from his grandmother's mother.