On The Devil's Chimney

Anne Landsman, The Devil's Chimney - The first thing you have to learn with ostriches is patience. – - He was like a bruise inside her, something soft and purple and aching and she wanted him to come back. – - The meths is still looking at me. The spirits drinkers pour it through a loaf of a white bread to get the blue out. Then they drink it. The meths eats them from the inside out. - - He says I’m living inside someone else’s skin. Someone else’s dead skin. So what. My skin is too tight anyway. –