Thursday, September 1, 2011

Mango Shaped Space - By Wendy Mass - Part 1

 By Claudia Komperada

This story starts off with a 13-year-old girl called Mia admitting she sees colors in numbers, sounds, and letters. For example, when she pictures the letter a, or reads it, the letter for Mia has a yellow faded sunflower color to it. Or whenever she thinks of q, she sees a dark silver. 


Mia's grandfather died a year ago, and Mia has been making a painting for him to honor his one-year-death anniversary. What also happened a year ago was that Mia found a small orange kitten, which she kept and named Mango. Mia didn't name her cat for the color, but for whenever the cat wheezed or sighed, mango-like colors came out of him, acoording to her.


Mia never told anybody about her colors yet. There was incident in third grade about Mia's colors, and she has been keeping it a secret since, even from her best friend Jenna.


In a store with her mom for school-shopping, Mia meets a little boy and introduces herself. The little boy, Billy, says that Mia is purple and green. Mia says no, the color of her name is red and green. Later she realized that Billy might have the same situation as she does, too, seeing colors in letters.

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