Incarnate

She’d told her story so many times now—to her parents, to her teacher and the principal, to the police—that she couldn’t believe she was being forced to repeat it again. While she reviews frame after frame of the young woman’s face and body, she thinks about scenarios she can create to showcase the singer’s potential breadth. She must put this impossible mystery on the shelf and return to the real world. Whatever made her shoot up in height also changed her hair, finally giving her the tresses she’d wanted her whole life.