The Wishing Game

by Meg Shaffer

“‘Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is a thing with black feathers.” He smiled as he stroked Thurl Ravenscroft’s glossy black chest. “Black feathers, a sharp beak, and talons. Dangerous things, wishes. Sometimes they come to you when you call. Sometimes they fly away after biting you.”

always be quiet when a heart is breaking.”

Søren Kierkegaard—‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.’

“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”