Nastasya may be more than 400 years old, but she’s only now learning to truly live a worthy life. After centuries of a hard-partying lifestyle, Nastasya has finally found something that might resemble peace and contentment at River’s Edge, a kind of rehab for wayward immortals. Though her life isn’t perfect, she’s slowly learning to [...]
Category Archive — magic
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
A few weeks before her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein makes the startling discovery that she can taste the emotions in her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake. With every bite, Rose is horrified to find out that her’s mother’s outward happiness and good cheer is just a cover for loneliness, sadness and emptiness. Quickly learning to avoid [...]
Word of the Week (43)
Strange, but true: according to Wikipedia, October 5, 1582 is a date that simply does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, thanks to their implementation of the Gregorian calendar. It seems kind of impossible, that a date in history should cease to exist, and yet, it also seems to be true. Thankfully, October [...]
