She sat down between us and hugged our tiny bodies to her side as we regressed into babyhood. I looked up at her and saw that she had been affected too! The short exposure to the machine’s effects hadn’t reduced her to childhood like it had us, but the effects could be seen immediately. It was like looking at a series of old photographs being flipped in reverse order; the gray in her hair vanished immediately, followed by the crowsfeet in the corners of her eyes, the wrinkles at the corners of her lips vanished almost as soon as the grey in her hair had. I was seeing my mother as I remembered her from my childhood. Her cheeks took on a healthy glow as her brown hair became lustrous again.
The Day’s of his Lives Scene 107
Related Articles
-
Alvin Ever After: Alvin in the Second Scene 140
Away from the running water I could once again hear the shouting voices as they managed to filter...
-
Her Name Is Lea Finale Scene 178
Chapter 16: What is Happening Much to my surprise, I ended up nodding off next to little Lea. I...
-
Original Research Scene 10
Eric had discovered that while he could not yet see a way to cure the diseases he did develop...
-
Un Lampo di Bianco Scene 42
Jackson stiffened. “All right, people. I am going to say this once. This is an open murder investigation. You...
-
Alvin in the First Scene 79
Mom squealed, laughed, and swatted him away as if trying to shoo away a gnat. The two of them...
-
The Inheritance Scene 20
The camera shifted to show a freezer in a dimly lit room. “Under the floorboards next to the freezer...
-
Meg’s Transformation Scene 206
Carrie’s face reddened as she struggled to get the words together to explain. “Well…um…. I know you say it’s...
-
Her Name Is Lea Finale Scene 26
That child, Lea, was stuck in my mind. I remembered Amber’s words very clearly: “…If only those that didn’t...