The Writing On The Wall - Judy Colella (top e book reader .TXT) 📗

And like an idiot, I lowered my face to look more closely. That was the last time I saw anything out of my left eye. At the time, I wondered in passing – as I began to pass out – how a ten-year-old could have the strength to stab a person through the eye.

Later, I learned that poor little Mika wasn’t a child at all, but a full-grown adult known in current parlance as a normal dwarf – someone with dwarfism but perfect proportions. The police later concluded that she was into identity theft, and used her bathroom messages to attract victims.

As I was lying on the bathroom floor in the theater, she went to my boyfriend, told him I needed my purse, and he gave it to her.

When I didn’t return, he had one of the employees check the bathroom, and I was found with – he told me – a theatrical scream by the maintenance worker. Seems I had a lovely pool of blood soaking the floor and my hair by that time.

Mika, meanwhile, was long gone, and before anyone could report my credit cards missing, she had wiped out all my accounts. I’m still waiting for a refund from the IRS because someone else with my name and Social Security Number had already filed.

I wear a patch over my eye, a false eye taking its place when I go out to dinner or attend a formal event. My boyfriend proved himself worthy of the title and we eventually got married.

And, no, I’ve never gone into a public restroom since that day, nor will I, and none of my pens is a red Sharpie.

In fact, nothing I own is red. Well, except the handle of the letter opener I keep in my purse in case I run into Mika.

Publication Date: 05-11-2015

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