Strangers Like Me

He looked at her inert form and checked the similarities. Two eyes like her -though his were molten gold and hers were earth brown- a nose like her, hands with five fingers on them –though his ended in claws and not fingernails- hair on top of his head –though his was silver and not black- two arms, two legs, a stomach, a chest, feet with ten digits in all, and two ears –though his were on top of his head and dog-like.

Looking at his sleeping mother, the three-year-old wondered again why so many people called him a monster when he looked so much like them.