Night Music

Dancers in the forest

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay

Silvery moonlight spilled through my bedroom window, limning my posters of Joan Jett and Led Zeppelin on the walls, and setting shadows a-dance among the diorama of action figures and ponies on my desk. Interlaced with the pearly light, a quiet clear melody tickled my ears.

I rolled over and sat up, drawn to the window, caught by the music and pulled to my feet to look out into…