Take me the way I am
She smiled tentatively at him.
She'd gotten used to the stares by now...the whispers and the barely suppressed laughter at her two slender legs, her nose (how could she smell anything accurately with just a single nose?!!) and her symmetrical cheekbones under almond-shaped brown eyes. Yes, she understood their derision to an extent...what was the use of a mere pair of eyes, that too only facing a single direction? How could she compare with their twenty seven strategically placed sense-lenses which covered their globular heads and looked, x-rayed, detected, monitored, predicted and analyzed all at once? Whereas her two eyes merely saw.
What they saw now, though, made her pause and react. She'd experienced many stares in the time she'd spent in their world, but none that made her (single, four-cylindered, blood-pumping-only) heart beat like this. None that made her feel special, and (dare she say it?) beautiful. No stares that didn't ridicule her. Which is why she took a whole five minutes to realize that he was staring in admiration at her. He liked her. Despite her upright manner, her long haired, elliptical face, her lack of sense-lenses and multiple noses. He saw through her human exterior and fell in love with her inner being. At first sight. Using all twenty-seven of his 'eyes'...he took her the way she was.
Which is why she broke her tentative two-legged stride and smiled at him.
I discovered this song a while ago and fell for it at once. "At first sound". Saw the video for it and started wondering what it would feel like in a world where being 'normal' is abnormal. Where a slender, brown-eyed, long-haired stereotypical beauty would be considered a freak. Maybe it's all that Asimov I read last month, maybe it's my own experience being an 'alien', maybe it's the freedom from reality that the Science Fiction genre allows...this story is inspired by all of the above.
She'd gotten used to the stares by now...the whispers and the barely suppressed laughter at her two slender legs, her nose (how could she smell anything accurately with just a single nose?!!) and her symmetrical cheekbones under almond-shaped brown eyes. Yes, she understood their derision to an extent...what was the use of a mere pair of eyes, that too only facing a single direction? How could she compare with their twenty seven strategically placed sense-lenses which covered their globular heads and looked, x-rayed, detected, monitored, predicted and analyzed all at once? Whereas her two eyes merely saw.
What they saw now, though, made her pause and react. She'd experienced many stares in the time she'd spent in their world, but none that made her (single, four-cylindered, blood-pumping-only) heart beat like this. None that made her feel special, and (dare she say it?) beautiful. No stares that didn't ridicule her. Which is why she took a whole five minutes to realize that he was staring in admiration at her. He liked her. Despite her upright manner, her long haired, elliptical face, her lack of sense-lenses and multiple noses. He saw through her human exterior and fell in love with her inner being. At first sight. Using all twenty-seven of his 'eyes'...he took her the way she was.
Which is why she broke her tentative two-legged stride and smiled at him.
I discovered this song a while ago and fell for it at once. "At first sound". Saw the video for it and started wondering what it would feel like in a world where being 'normal' is abnormal. Where a slender, brown-eyed, long-haired stereotypical beauty would be considered a freak. Maybe it's all that Asimov I read last month, maybe it's my own experience being an 'alien', maybe it's the freedom from reality that the Science Fiction genre allows...this story is inspired by all of the above.
posted by RTD2 at 11:50 PM
2 Comments:
Spooky, or should I say Spocky!
Pretty imaginative and funny ! :)
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