1. The colour ochre, painted by the city mageguard around his front door as a warning: do not enter, premises unsafe.2. His parents’ address, which is where he tells the mageguard captain to find him while he waits for them to untangle the knot of curdled time living in his room. In four years of […]
Friday night. My older sister points a beam at my bedroom ceiling so the sky appears: charcoal edging to violet, clouds in layered bruises, starlight peeping through the gaps. Claretta then directs a second beam at the wall. An impression of our city blooms there, trembling and unfocused as she fusses with the controls.A silent […]
“I found my spirit animal!” My daughter, satisfied. “It’s a horse.”“How did you figure that?” She doesn’t strike me as horse-like, and unlike some girls, isn’t even interested in horses.“I looked it up.” Certain.Looked it up used to mean Encyclopedia Britannica. We had that distinguished, gilt-spredged set, and I would often select a volume at […]