Olive the Ornithomimosaur was hurt, humiliated! A social outcast! She knew it wasn’t normal. She knew her friends would laugh.

Her mother had forbidden her to touch it. Olive would show her.

Olive stretched her tiny arms to her chin and yanked, and just like that, the feather was gone.

Catherine Sevenhuysen is an aspiring actor from Nanaimo, BC, and a proud Auntie to Calvin and Victor.