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When Mystical Creatures Attack! (Iowa Short Fiction Award) When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
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“The leaf said nothing. Or maybe it said everything, which, as all colors make white, sounds like nothing.”
Kathleen Founds, When Mystical Creatures Attack!
“I got used to birds: small black birds flying up from behind a building like God had tossed up a handful of currants, birds squalling in the parking lot of the grocery store (drowning the hum of industrial refrigerators), chachalacas -brown robed nuns to the spangled disco dancer peacocks - cackling in the dust of our yard. I got used to the chatters, squeaks, squalls, peeps, calls that sounded like bitter laughter, whistles, flutes, calls that sounded like souls ascending to heaven. I got used to dust and flatness, to sunsets like pink water pouring from the sky, flooding the earth with orange soda. I got used to wind: the hot, cruel wind of afternoon, the merciful magnolia breeze of night. I got used to it. But then I had to go.”
Kathleen Founds, When Mystical Creatures Attack!
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