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Lucy Strange by Theodora Goss Lucy Strange went up to town wearing a raincoat over her nightgown, carrying a lantern, leading a goat — she went first by train and then by boat. She put the lantern on her head. … Continue reading →

Wild Geese by Theodora Goss The cries of the wild geese are spring, are returning warmth and growth and light, are the promise of apples ripening on the branch and crickets singing in the summer night, are hope in flight. … Continue reading →

The Dictator Fears Death by Theodora Goss He tried to put his name on bridges, tunnels, terminals, in gilded letters carved into the stone of monuments, insisted he alone could build the country, could construct the future, that his fame … Continue reading →

The Witch Makes Her To-Do List by Theodora Goss Check on the frogs in the pond, especially the one with the crooked leg, who can’t hop as far as the others. Ask them how they are doing, whether the dragonflies … Continue reading →

The Dragons by Theodora Goss One day, the dragons came. It was on a Tuesday, she remembers. It was the sort of thing that would happen on a Tuesday, which is an unsatisfying sort of day, not the beginning of … Continue reading →

Hungarian Songs by Theodora Goss I want to tell a story about the hills that Hungarians call mountains known as the Mátra, which is a mountain range or a ridge of hills, depending on where you come from, and a … Continue reading →

The Headless Jesus by Theodora Goss There was a tomb in the Fiume Road Cemetery in Budapest, on which a headless Jesus sat between two angels holding up their arms to Heaven as though they too were wondering where his … Continue reading →