Before She Wakes: Forbidden Fairy Tales (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
I stared at the tarot reader. She was easily five years younger than me. Probably more. Was she reciting from a script? It was a fact of life that people were afraid of the things they wanted most, but they usually didn’t figure that out until they had a few decades behind them. At that point they chalked it up to self-preservation—it was comfy being crabby and rigid. Or maybe that was just me. “It’s like you’ve been editing your entire life. Going along day to day, judging moment to moment, never really present, or knowing what it is you really want.” “Are you for real?” Yep, I said it out loud. She gave me a smug smile. I scowled at her teal Ganesh tattoo, smirking at me from under his trunk. Cheeky elephant bastard. Who gets mad at Ganesh? And why am I the one acting like a child? “Thanks,” I murmured ungraciously, rising from the table. As I turned to exit the tent, she chirped, “Enjoy the festival,” with annoying emphasis on the word “enjoy.” The nerve of her, in her hippie-ass, yoga-toned, champa-scented, pantheistic superiority.
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