Cal read comics all the time.

Cal read comics all the time. He read the funnies in the newspaper. He read piles of comic works He read so many comics that words began appearing in balloons from one side of to the other his head, as if he were a comic-strip character. further there was one difference: solely Cal's thoughts appeared in the balloons.

Cal first noticed it in the mirror as he got ready for academy one morning. Words like BLAH and narcotic appeared. Though the words were revers in the mirror, Cal could make them without

Since Cal lived with his dad, who had already left for work, he would have to wait until later to talk

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