2025-03-12
16 分钟Hello, friends, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.
Sarah is a girl who does not like being short.
She asks her mother if she will always be short, and her mother says she is just a late bloomer.
Sarah works on some art for school while her mother hangs in new painting she got.
It is a dragon.
And while Sarah is working on her art, she is sure she sees it moving out of the corner of her eye.
Sarah meets Sparky, the dragon.
Thump, thump, thump.
Not quite standing on her tippy-toes, Sarah placed some heavy books on the dining room table chair.
Mom, why am I the shortest girl in the universe?
Sarah said
as she went back into the living room to get more of those thick art books her mother and father like to read.
Sarah thought they were boring.
Who would want to look at black and white photos in a book?
Sarah, you are not short.
You are just a late bloomer.
Her mother used to give long explanations about how Sarah would soon grow,
but after being asked the same question a thousand times,
even her patience for Sarah's constant questions had limits.
But Lennie at school says I am vertically challenged and I am always the last person to be picked when they need players for the basketball team.