Flash!! The Unicorn... in Flash

.. is a myth. But that doesn’t stop it from being real.

According to some legend, only female virgins - the only kind that count - can see unicorns. It’s been a while since I’ve been a female virgin, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a unicorn. They’re white, aren’t they? A white horse with a long pointy horn in the middle of their forehead. Yeah, that’s right. That’s what a unicorn is.

There have been fake unicorns. Circuses glue a horn on a goat and call it a unicorn. But we know better. Female virgins or not, we are not to be fooled by a goat with a glued on horn.

So…

When I jump on the bare back of my snowy white unicorn and lean over his neck and tangle my fingers in his mane, I whisper to him. Go. Go! GO!

My voice gets louder and he gets faster. He gallops to Gallup, New Mexico, in the moonlight. We meet Buz and Tod - yes one Z and one D - and their Corvette. And I am a virgin. And still female. And the world is black and white. It is a year between 1960 and 1964 in which I was mostly a female virgin so no wonder I could see and ride a unicorn.

Note: While doing research for this piece I was told by wiki that “During World War II, the city fought successfully to prevent 800 Japanese American residents from being placed in wartime internment.” I find that special, and more interesting than mythy unicorns.