Blessed by Smith Cynthia Leitich

Author:Smith, Cynthia Leitich [Smith, Cynthia Leitich]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 0763643262
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: 2011-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Due in part to preternatural energy, I was almost caught up in all of my classes, English included, though my teachers had the pesky habit of assigning new work.

As I made my way out of class, Mrs. Levy passed back my journal. “Glad to see you’re writing again. You have a real knack for the gothic. Those vignettes —”

“They’re not fiction.” Flipping through, I was pleased to see all “plus” marks.

At her startled expression, I added, “I didn’t mean that exactly. Of course they’re fiction. But they came to me as dreams. I wrote down what I remembered.”

“Dreams?” my teacher repeated. “With that level of detail? That’s remarkable. You reference the bowie knife specifically. Do you have a background in weapons?”

“I . . . no, I don’t.” That was weird.

“You do know that it’s one of the knives mentioned in Dracula?”

“Oh.” I shoved the journal in my backpack. “That must be it. I’ve been reading Dracula.” Though, come to think of it, the nightmares had begun before I’d started the novel, and I didn’t recall any knives in the story. “You’ve read it?”

Mrs. Levy raised an eyebrow. “Ah, yes, Eastern Europeans. Scary.”

I wasn’t sure what she meant. “Is it true that the count was related to Attila the Hun? He seemed awfully proud of that.”

“What do you mean by true?”

Zipping up my pack, I said, “Never mind. It doesn’t matter. I hate the book. It’s even worse than ‘The Lottery.’ All the girls die.”

“Not Mina,” Mrs. Levy replied. “Mina Harker doesn’t die.”

“But didn’t Mina drink Dracula’s blood?” I asked. “Lucy died and became undead, and it’s not clear if she even drank. But she had to have, right? And anyway, how could Mina drink and survive? That’s impossible.”

“You’re not done reading it yet?” Mrs. Levy asked.

“I gave up. It was obvious where it was going.” Or so I’d thought.

“But if you haven’t finished,” my teacher began again, “how do you know about the bowie knife? It’s not mentioned until the end of the story.”

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