“Yes I ask for favor again. I know I always ask for favor.”
”spider, I have made amends for the pebbles in your web and the way I plucked that fly from your mouth once. do you forgive me? “
”remove the sight of everyone’s death.”
“Well it gets worse I guess.”
”oh yeah?”
“Someone once asked me what the book I was writing was about and I quickly wrote back without thinking, which is usually how I figure things out, actually. I wrote back it’s about a woman who thinks she saw her own death but it’s actually the death of the man she loved.”
”oh one of the three men?”
“Get this.”
(laughter)
“yeah sarah?”
“ I have no fucking idea.”
This is for my father who I understand like a brother. I’ll finish this book for you whether you ever get to read it or not.
my dad taught me how to lie and how to laugh.
Is it recording?
wait i have to hit the button.
ok.
so this is the story of how i accurately predicted my own death.
I thought you said this is the story of how you predicted the deaths of three men.
(clears throat)
I just wanted them to listen.
ok, continue.
there are two versions: the one I made up so I would be tricked and the real one.
(long pause)
this is the made up version so I don’t have to face the real version.
but tell me the real version you told me.
no matter what I do, one day my jaw clenches shut when im swallowing water and i choke to death.
is this the real version or the fake version?
I told God to surprise me so I tell both stories and see which one happens.
“Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.”
—dean young //
this next section is called Queen of Swords
invocation
(dedication page)
daturamoon.com 