Sublime

Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

I was carrying a fragile treasure.

‘You are walking across a plain when you suddenly encounter a wall,’ our haggard teacher had said. ‘The wall is infinitely tall and extends infinitely deep underground. It stretches infinitely to the left and infinitely to the right. What is it?’ A cold shiver washed over me. I recited the riddle to Ms Stella, who sat next to me. She teased it over

The instructions are printed on the lid in English, Spanish, French, and comic book pictures.

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