title: Call Me
author: Auterson, Rick
description: There are a few rare women who see one-hundred times as many colors as the rest of us: not just more shades of color, more colors-colors for which there are no names. At just eleven years old, Karen is hiding a dark secret. She cannot see colors like everybody else. Her father takes her to an art show and, while everybody else sees the paintings as wildly colorful abstracts, to Karen, it is the first time she has ever seen anything that looks real. Hidden in the sky of one particular painting are the words CALL ME but only Karen can see them. She breaks down in tears when she realizes that she is not the only one. There is another girl like her.