Finding a Way in the Dark -The Blind Bat Short Stories and Previews
By Amanda Bybee
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The short story series: The Blind Bat, The Bat Sisters, and The Bat Colony are short anecdotes featuring teen bats. Bebe is a totally blind insect bat who first finds herself in the company of fruit bats. Batina is a fruit bat with low vision who gets adopted into an insect bat family. In the first story, Bebe learns that all insect bats are blind and that she's no different from the rest. These angsty bats eventually learn to live together despite their differences. In this short publication,readers can sample other titles available and soon to be available by Amanda Bybee.
Amanda Bybee
I am a special educator who has worked with the blind for nearly ten years, also having a visual impairment. Intent on writing stories with a message about very capable, other-abled people, who accomplish the unexpected, I feel the public can learn a lot about themselves and others by reading about the many obstacles that individuals with visual impairments overcome daily. My writing emphasis for the last year has been on young adult fiction.I also have a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and I am a native San Franciscan now residing in Oakland.
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Finding a Way in the Dark -The Blind Bat Short Stories and Previews - Amanda Bybee
Finding a Way in the Dark
(The Blind Bat Short Stories and Previews)
Author: Amanda Bybee
Cover Illustration: Natassia Rees-Evans
Designed by: Reynaldo Abesamis Jr.
All-rights-reserved
This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, businesses, places, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.
Copyright 2014 by Amanda Bybee
Smashwords Edition
Table of Contents
The Blind Bat
The Bat Sisters
The Bat Colony
Preview One: ZOOFARI
Preview Two: GRANDMA
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The Blind Bat
By the time the Blind Bat
reached her teenage years, she was growing fiercely tired of bumping up against her cave walls. So much so that she even feared to leave her cave. She felt rotten, and could not allow anyone into her life anymore, even those who had once given her so much. She had so little energy left after getting nowhere for so long. When she finally decided to leave, the rest of the colony of fruit bats had all left her.
Actually, she had just assumed all along they were family because they co-habitated in the cave, sharing shelter, and fruit that they would find outside. They prepared a variety of nutritious dishes like fruitloaf, stir-fried apples, and mashed bananas with berry gravy. But all the fruit they brought tasted rotten to her, and she began to wonder if she was allergic to it all.
They nicknamed her the Blind Bat, because they’d once heard humans, wandering in the day, use the phrase blind as a bat.
The bats thought this was funny, because not all bats were blind. In fact, she was the first blind bat they had met. Her name was actually Bebe. They would shriek, hello Bebe!
And she would squeak, something like hello
back. They would share some joke at times - many she didn’t think were funny - while they busied themselves lighting matches to keep warm, and hung by their feet resting after a night’s work.
What did the insect bat say after the vampire bat got her?
they asked each other.
My, what a big mosquito that was!
That sure sucked!
was Batina’s serious punchline.
Though she wasn’t expected to work, the colony let her stay with them. She wasn’t expected to do anything, and so for a long time, she did nothing but think about how she could get out of her predicament.
It was one day when she was