reading only the red type

reading only the red type

fiction
edward w pritchard

It had been a while since Leisha had had the dream but she had last night. It was now today after work and last's nights dream had driven Leisha to visit her half brother Sonny.

Leisha's recurrent dream was of herself having the birth defect of Down's syndrome and in the dream she repeated the same insignificant task over and over. The dream was a metaphor of her feelings toward her brother Sonny.

Sonny was excited when Leisha walked in her Aunt's basement, not because he was excited to see Leisha, which he was; but because of the new bible he had bought. Sonny watched his money carefully but to him the new Bible was worth the money because all the words Jesus had said were in Red.

Sonny couldn't read and he spoke with a stammer but he had a religious nature and he often asked his sister Leisha to read to him from his Bible.

Reading carefully, for Sonny had memorized many of the verses, Leisha the cynical Deputy Mayor sat on the old red couch in Sonny's room and recited the red verses attributed to have been actually spoken by Jesus Christ.