Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin

Author:Sarah Maria Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Forty Something Summers Previously

The stone eyes of the Mary couldn’t see the warp and twist of the air in the glade. It happened in the middle of the afternoon, in the sun drench of the early summertime, long after the worst had happened. Just at the beginning of the continuing lives of those who had lost their friend. The most powerful tragedy is the first time one is forgotten, even for a minute.

There was a weak point: the kind of injury upon reality that unearned pain and unspeakable punishment had left on this mountainside. The world split, a hairline crack in reality that shone like iridescence and madness.

The two of them slid out, like tears or drops of blood or spirits—or monsters—or calamities. They were starved, and this place was a fertile plain of agony and ecstasy. There was so much grief around this mountainside. They would follow it to its source.

One came in the body of a cat. The other in the body of an owl.

Behind them, a cut in the world. An entryway. An exit.

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