Into the Dangerous World by Julie Chibbaro

Author:Julie Chibbaro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

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I FELT LIKE a snail on a razor. Flesh inching forward on a sharp edge that split me in two.

Jonathan’s was still open. I took my watercolor paintings out of my bag and stood outside his store, looking in. The thought of stealing that ebony black tightened my fingers around the paper he’d given me.

Why had I even come here?

I sifted through my paintings, looking at the likenesses of Dado, his patterns and configurations, his obsessiveness over gleaning and stripping and constructing that I’d been trying to recreate.

There were rich colors against hard lines when I added my ink pen; some were torn and layered in places. I was trying to work fast enough to avoid missing him, building with these too-thin materials, trying to make them thick and dense and real. Trying to make the past real.

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