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But Sophia didn’t. She still doesn’t. Surrounded by the secrets her househas kept from her, she tries and tries to see the shape of the thing happeningto her. But all she has are pieces, these pieces, an incomplete body with toomuch hair and jewels and teeth but no face to see and understand.Sophia gets unsteadily to her feet. She reaches up for the lip of thecounter to hold on to. And she does understand something then, one thing,one little bone in the hundreds that make up a self.The table so high she swings her legs in the air.The bed she needs a staircase to dismount.The staircase she needs a half hour to descend.The chairs she drowns in. The kitchen counter she has to reach up tograb hold of. Oh, she thinks. How silly of me not to see. Not to know fromthe first day.This house was never built for her.Someone fashioned it lovingly, brick by beam, for the daily use of awoman much bigger and taller and stronger than Sophia. A giantess.Someone the size of her husband. Perhaps even greater than him. Someonewith long, coarse black hair like the wig Mrs. Palfrey wore in theamphitheater.It had never been her house at all.Something breaks in Sophia. Or perhaps that little organ ofdissatisfaction she had always lacked germinates and begins to send outsprouts at last.Either way, she runs from it.Out.Into the night and the street, past curfew and into the reaching, graspingshadows that have waited for her for so long.
OPAL22. The fruit-bearing tree located beside the Eastern Gate is for decoration only and its issue is not safe to eat.Residents are encouraged to partake of all other orchards and groves within the bounds of clearly marked parks, gardens,or Arcadia Gardens infrastructure. Consumption of the issue of said tree shall constitute a gross violation of thisAgreement and render it null and void.
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Page 4 and 5: For Kris, Cylia, and SarahTurtles a
Page 6 and 7: WINESAPI was made for him.It is mor
Page 8 and 9: million detailed leaves she must po
Page 10 and 11: And then, for no reason whatsoever,
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Page 14 and 15: EMPIREMrs. Lyon lounges grandly on
Page 16 and 17: know that look. We all know it. The
Page 18 and 19: “What did she do? The criminal, I
Page 20 and 21: “We’re all happy, Maestro,” M
Page 22 and 23: SNOWSWEET10. Holiday displays and o
Page 24 and 25: That’s all the chairs have ever b
Page 26 and 27: her stomach floods itself with acid
Page 28 and 29: CAMEOThe moon melts in through the
Page 30 and 31: of them, strolling the parks, check
Page 32 and 33: “No,” she gasps. “Never. I lo
Page 34 and 35: GALAThe night dazzles Sophia.Firefl
Page 36 and 37: of Bliss to Come unfolds onstage as
Page 38 and 39: sauce on the earth. But when Sophia
Page 40 and 41: BRAEBURNThe house lies dark on a da
Page 44 and 45: BLACK TWIGSophia runs until her bre
Page 46 and 47: salesman? Is there something you la
Page 48 and 49: “NO,” she screams in his face,
Page 50 and 51: “I lied because he would have mad
Page 52 and 53: “Ask me,” he says in defeat.
Page 54 and 55: JUBILEESophia reassembles her house
Page 56 and 57: and the Lord God my Father breathed
Page 58 and 59: “Your Father is my Father too. He
Page 60 and 61: Eat it, you fucking pig, eat it.But
Page 62 and 63: ALSO BYCATHERYNNE M. VALENTEThe Lab
Page 64 and 65: Prix Imaginales. Valente has also b
Page 67 and 68: This is a work of fiction. All of t

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