Weird
- Mar 26
- 1 min read
Lleyton Kane
Wyrd: fate. The power to name fate.
They write it down,
As if I can’t read
I can
The refrigerator hums at sixty cycles. I count them.
You don't hear it?
Failure to integrate.
I integrate
everything.
The dust's velocity. The fluorescent's flicker— at twice the mains—
That's what I can't stop doing—
My mother says how are you and I tell her:
the barometric pressure dropped this morning, the light has teeth—
She says that's not what I meant.
Does not respond appropriately.
I responded.
The floor is loud.
How many times must I say it—
Wyrd—the sisters who saw how the thread would cut.
So they were the problem.
When I report what's there
the room
goes
silent.
They call it weird.
I call it
seeing.
Later, in margins, I write the word once, then again,
until it stops shouting,
until it fits
in the quiet.
Image © Europeana
Lleyton Kane is a high school senior at Mount de Sales Academy in Macon, GA. He writes from his learned experience as a neurodivergent. His short story, "Staring Beyond Kings and Gods" was awarded second place in the GISA Scholarship Competition for 11th graders in 2024. He lives in Macon, GA in a house filled with paintings, dogs, and stories that unfold slowly...and quietly.