I’ve seen some strange things in my life. It could be things from my
reality or the fact that, ever since I was a child, I’ve had a very
active imagination.
Once, when I was about five years
old, I saw what I could only describe as a fairy or maybe cupid. I was
riding in the car with my parents. We were on our way to the drive in to
see “Coming to America”. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was
midsummer and extremely hot outside. Like most families in the 80s our
car had a leather interior that stuck to you whenever it was hot out so
it was nice to feel the wind through the open window. As that sun was
going down I stared out of the window when I saw something larger than
an average fly zoom past my face and into the car. I was more interested
than scared, which would explain why I didn’t call out to my mom to
look at this thing hovering over my lap. I’ll describe it as only my
childhood brain processed it as. It was in the shape of a small human.
Again it was only slightly larger that a horsefly. Even for it to be
that small I could notice human facial features. It had tightly coiled
short hair and chubby just like any drawing you’ve seen of cupid. The
weird part is that it looked like it was holding a tiny bow and arrow.
Although it was hovering over me I don’t clearly remember seeing any
wings. The only other way I described his appearance back then is that
he looked like his/her body was the texture of a pencil eraser. You know
those ones that we all had as kids that were bought separately? It was
almost a similar color as well. It wasn’t bright pink, but it also
wasn’t flesh colored either. I would say its color was more of a light
rose or possibly even mauve. It was an even color all over from its hair
to its feet.
As we drove along I stared at this
creature. It would hover close to me then back away and kept repeating
that motion. Eventually I got the nerve to shoo it away like I would any
normal fly. It seemed as though it flew out of the window, but soon
after it came back and hovered over my lap again. It kept inching closer
and closer until it stuck me with its tiny arrow. I shooed it away
again. It backed up slightly then came back and stuck me again before
flying away for good. I checked my arm for marks, but found none. I
searched around to see if it had hidden somewhere nearby in the car but
it hadn’t. More importantly I stared at the rear view mirror to see if
my parents had been watching. They hadn’t. I was the only one to see
this creature. To this day, almost 30 years later, I haven’t seen
anything like it. I haven’t told many people about it, but it still
sticks out in my mind all of these years later. Still I wonder if it was
something that I’d actually seen or was it possibly some sort of fly
I’d never seen before and my imagination just ran with it. Until I see
it again I will never know.
-Asia Aneka Anderson, 2016©
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