Growing Wings

By Laurel Winter

Linnet use to be a normal girl, but when she finds two little bumps on her shoulder blades that itch and ache she begins to wary.When her mother (Sarah McKenzie) saw her back and started to weep, she began to really wary. What’s wrong with her? Her mother turned around and started to unbutton her shirt. What Linnet saw on Sarah’s back scared her. There were two big scars right by her shoulder blades. When Linnet asked what they were her mother said “wings”.

Her mother buttoned her shirt, and left Linnet’s room. Linnet just sat their not sure what to think. After a few minutes Sarah came back with a bandage, and put it around Linnets shoulder blades then across it above her chest. Every day after that when she came home from school  her mother would take off the bandage and give her a bath. When she was done Sarah  would  re-bandaged Linnet’s back.  One time when she was out of the tub waiting for Sarah to re-bandage her back , she peeked at the mirror behind her. There were two little wings that looked like plucked chicken wings with a few small puffy fathers here and there. Not what she expected them to look like.  Growing Wings is a dramatic and fun story full of questions and answers.