TITLE: Glow

AUTHOR:  Alison

SUMMARY:  This is a Katie fic story.  There is only one other story
on this site about her and it's a bit Mary-Sue-esque so I don't 
expect anyone to be that excited.  Hopefully this is more like an
 original work of fiction than anything else.


In essence, this is a rumination on childhood and lightening bugs and
 the magic that we found in the world when we were young.


DISCLAIMER:  I own the kid and anyone else you just have to guess who
 they are so, who's to say who owns them?  Hmmm...?

She could see them out the window.  The first lightening bugs
of the season, their neon tails flashing on and off again and again.
She could remember being young and collecting jars full of them.

Her father always made her let them go after awhile.  "Nothing likes
to live in a cage," he would tell her and she remembered when she had
been the one in the cage.  She always let them go, even the brightest
ones that made her whole fist glow when she held them.

They were like magic, those glowing bugs.  Inside their lights, they
held a million secrets, a billion tales, and Katie knew that if she
could only figure out their code, she could learn them all.

But there was never enough time in the summer, never enough time
before she had to let her bugs go, never enough time to break the
code and learn the magic.

Molly said they were creepy but Katie saw the elegance- the regality
of her bugs.  They had a special gift, one no other insect shared and
thus they held a million more secrets inside.  She felt that way
sometimes and she knew it was true.  She was different from any other
person on the planet and she held all those secrets inside her.

She thought that made her kin with the lightening bugs- birds of a
feather, if you would.  So she treated the gentle bugs as though they
were an extension of herself, a part of her or perhaps a close
relative- the sisters she never had, she sometimes thought.  Then she
would feel all warm and fuzzy inside and really, truly felt what it
was like to glow.

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