Loneliness, a powerful emotion. Not only experienced by us, humans, but by animals. Even mythical creatures, such as unicorns. Scott Stealey, author of "Unicorns" describes a moment of loneliness for not only his main character, a woman who had recently been divorced followed by the loss of her job, but also Kevin, a unicorn that stumbles out of the woods, alone. The story follows the woman in her journey to rekindle her happiness in life. The journey starts before the story even begins. Her real journey starts the moment her husband had left her. Leaving her entirely alone and vulnerable, possibly for the first time. Sad and alone, she spends her time in her work, creating beautiful hanging mobiles, and playing her zither. Now comes Kevin, a unicorn stumbling out of the woods. The zither, the mobiles, they both made Kevin quite happy, those two things alone seemed to be the only things he lived for, along with eating the grass in her yard. He had found a home, and she had found company again. The author paints a picture of how their bonding completed each other, "For a time I was happy to oblige him even if I got nothing in return but the belief that we somehow found each …show more content…
The job that had some how brought them together. Imstead of throwing herself into the only friend she had for support she proceedes to try and sell him. The thing that gave her the smallest ounce of joy since her loneliness began. Since her journey into finding happiness began. Luckily, the magazine editor gives her job, a job of writing about her precious Kevin. I started to believe that maybe this new job in journalism would be the next step in her finding her happiness again, unfortunately writers block comes into play. Beginning to believe her unicorn wasn't "fascinating", she becomes very frustrated in her writing, as if a pet unicorn named Kevin wasn't fascinating