Magic for Liars

by Sarah Gailey

If you need to hurry, her oft-repeated saying went, you’re already too late.

“Yes. Please do not attempt to be cute about my title. There are more interesting things to be done with words. We spend most of our students’ freshman year teaching them that words have power, and we don’t waste that power if we can help it.”

Being brave means holding your fear in one hand and your responsibility in the other,

And the screen was badly cracked. It had fallen. At high velocity. Toward a wall.