Instalment One Hundred and Thirty Seven

She was not, nor had she ever been, extraordinary. She was, much to her own mild and never expressed disappointment, extra ordinary. Not so extra ordinary that she would catch your eye and force you to take notice, which would have meant that she was extraordinarily extra ordinary and worth paying attention to. She was extra ordinary in a way that willed your eyes to glide over her without registering a presence, your attention would slip from her like a child down a slide. You would never notice that you could never notice her.

The day she received a present from her aunt, something extraordinary, she thought her middling luck had turned. “It has been passed down through the women in our family,” her aunt told her, presenting the heirloom psychic gift.

She toyed with her new gift for years but her ingrained extra ordinariness was a tough force to be reckoned with. When the power of the paranormal butted heads with her propensity to the very normal, the result was a tie. She never turned a profit from her gift of prophet. Her clumsy clairvoyance made the psychic un-chic, the occult paled to common.


She was an average medium.

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