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Creative Space - Kyla Ward
Creative Space
Kyla Ward
THE LOOKING-GLASS DESK
"Let's pretend there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It'll be easy enough to get through - "
And here Alice saw all sorts of queer things tucked away. There was a mummy case, such as she had seen in the British Museum, and a glasses case that was nearly as big! There were cats and bats and gargoyles, some of which seemed quite alive and others which did not. A stone that looked very much like a spider gave her serious pause. "Am I quite sure," she said, "that it's not a spider that looks very much like a stone? I suppose it doesn't matter, so long as it doesn't move."
She walked an unlikely number of knife edges to discover not cards, but some small figures that might have been chess pieces and a number of strangely shaped dice. There were a great many books with pictures and conversations layered indiscriminately with dictionaries and a Latin grammar, which seemed much too much like school, and one book where the pictures appeared to be the conversation. There were pens and brushes and inks of all colours sitting about with candles, cups and plates, so it seemed like the ruins of a mad tea party. If this were a writing desk, the writer was certainly ravin' And very much larger than she. Perhaps if she took one of these hard black tablets, which were all that seemed to be left of the feast... Alas, the tablet tasted of nothing but data and Alice quite regretted taking such a byte.
And then Alice began seeing even stranger things, that were very disconcerting indeed. But that's another story. Several, in fact!
Kyla Ward
Kyla Ward is the co-author of the novel Prismatic, under the name Edwina Grey. She has had short fiction published in Shadowed Realms, Borderlands, Gothic.Net, Agog!, Agog! 2, Passing Strange and Aurealis. Her poetry has appeared in Bloodsongs and Abbadon. Her story 'The Feast' was given an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and her poem 'Mary' was similarly honoured in the Eighth collection. Her story 'Kijin Tea' was nominated for both Aurealis and Ditmar awards for 2003.
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