:: glean ::

:: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 ::

This


This is the site for Brian Cronin; the illustrator who did the cover for The Inheritance of Loss. The site doesn't really match the style of his work, but I love a lot of his stuff.

There are also some sweet designs on Paulina Reye's site.

:: Fretting 12:27 PM [+] ::
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Eat

The weird way I eat now! Tonight for dinner, this: two roast potatoes, left over chicken from the baby's dinner. Yoghurt. The stone from a mango (the baby having eaten the flesh from the cheeks earlier, scored, then carved out in cubes). And chocolate. So much chocolate! I never really liked it that much before. But now - every day.

I ferret through the cupboards late at night, rustling quietly, trying not to disturb anyone. A mouse in my own home. Or something less cute. A cockroach, waving my antanae to sense any cosmic disturbances.

:: Fretting 8:51 PM [+] ::
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Sandals
Finally, finally, she gets a chance to buy new sandals. The old ones had taken to whimpering and snarling when she approached. Even the baby, with her fetish for returning shoes to their owners, avoided them.

The last pair had been the two strap model but this time, she buys the three straps. After two months of summer the tops of her feet have taken up their sun-tattoo; there is a dark ellipsis nestled comfortably between the two straps - like a speckled chicken egg, laid by a free-range chook. The 'happy' ones.

How long, she wonders, as she glides her card through the swipe machine, will it take for the egg to be overwritten by three bands? A week? A month? The rest of summer?

:: Fretting 4:08 PM [+] ::
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