My Silent Sister and Her Rusty Cage (A Short Story)

She is known to our family as Little Laura Lee. My dear older sister who hasn’t uttered a word for almost 60 years. In her silence she sits, locked away in an invisible cage, a prisoner to the devastating effects of Rett syndrome. Often ignored, forgotten, and alone, some would describe it as a sad life, if you can call her’s a life at all.

But there is one who sees and hears her cry above the silence and He has a future in store for her no human eyes can see…