The Spaceman
Once upon a bedtime, in a place a lot like here, there lived a boy, let’s call him Danny, who dreamed to one day disappear. It wasn’t sticks or stones that hurt him, and though he pretended not to mind, so often words, a lot like weapons, would seek him out to be unkind. Though unlike any of his classmates, he held a cosmic kind of hope. He studied space stations and star maps, each night behind his telescope. ...