They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And true beauty may sometimes be hidden from human site. Just as ugliness is not always on the surface. In this story of young Alice Unger, we find that what we perceive as good or bad, darkness or light, may in fact be complete opposites.
Israel Finn is an American writer of speculative fiction and the author of Dreaming at the Top of My Lungs. His stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and he's a winner of the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition.