My Body is a Cage and Other Stories

“Oh, yeah. My dad loved that show.”
“Guess what my middle name is.”
“Uh...”
“Guess.”
“Elizabeth?”
“No.”
“Mary?”
“No.”
“What is it?”
“Mulder. Astrid Mulder Finlay.”
“Oh my god.”
“I know right.”
“Why not Dana? Wasn’t that Scully’s first name? Itseems more like a middle name than
Mulder.”
“Scully was a skeptic but Mulder always believed.He was open to anything. Which was
how she wanted to raise me. Or maybe she just thoughthe was handsome.”
“He is pretty hot.”
In the last picture Ezra takes on the ride Astridis smiling, and trying to hide it.
☄☄☄☄☄☄
The air is staticy, the desert too quiet. As shelooks up into the cosmos, Astrid tells Ezra
something will happen tonight. The sky is totallyclear, the temperature a steady 65 degrees.
“How do you know?” He asks.