strength in numbers
The first day there was one paper robot and my little brother said it was an invasion.
I told him one paper robot doesn’t count as a whole invasion. There would have to be like, three, at least, to be an invasion.
The next day there were three paper robots.
“I told you it was an invasion,” he said.
The day after that there were at least a dozen of them, and the day after that there were hundreds.
Hundreds, maybe thousands of little paper robots in all sorts of colors, in different boxy paper shapes, spread out over the sidewalk and the street, covering the subway platform while we waited for the train.
People just ignored them, walking right on them like they were left over confetti from New Year’s or something.
“They shouldn’t do that,” my little brother said. “They’re going to make them mad.”
About flax-golden tales. Photo by Carey Farrell. Text by Erin Morgenstern.