The Silent Words

Once upon a time, in a quiet, hidden village, there lived a very unique boy named Abe. Now, Abe wasn’t special because he had three eyes or a squirrel’s tail (although he thought that idea was funny), but because he had a very particular superpower: he could hear other people’s thoughts! Yes, every little murmur in the minds of his schoolmates, his teachers, and even the baker, sounded in his mind like a melody... though, honestly, a bit of an off-key one.
To Abe, this power arrived like snow in the desert-completely unexpected and without any instruction manual. The first time he noticed it was when his math teacher thought, “If only these kids knew that I snack on the erasers when no one’s watching…” Abe almost asked what they tasted like, but instead, he decided to keep quiet. He didn’t want to scare anyone with his new ability.