Turquoise and Embroidered
Turquoise and Embroidered She learned the big word earlier than the other children. Embroidery. She couldn’t say it at first but knew it meant the beautiful stitching on clothes and scarves: the minute details that seemed impossible to have been born from human finger tips. Even though her fingers were always so slim and her hands so tiny she couldn’t imagine the effort. Anything embroidered was always more beautiful, more precious to their eyes. She appreciated what they saw but sometimes, it seemed too much of an act. Being a plain white blouse was all the much easier. All the same, it helped to be pretty sometimes. She still couldn’t say it. Emb – and cut. That's where she stopped. She muffled the rest of the sentence as she got older so they wouldn’t hear what she couldn’t articulate. They knew what she meant – almost all the time. The times they didn’t, she didn’t blame them. She couldn't. She kept thos...