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Magic Makeup
Before Paphos by Loretta Casteen
By Ray Vukcevich 12 April 2004
Linda said, let's go as each other, and I
8 January 2007 It starts again. The baby begins to cough and choke.
said, how the heck do you expect us to pull Locked Doors that off? by Stephanie Burgis "Makeup," she said. "Magic makeup. Look 1 January 2007 here." She handed me a card with a small white You can never let anyone bottle shrink-sealed onto it in clear plastic. suspect, his mother told him. That was the first rule she The illustration on the card was a bone-white skeletal face, obviously a guy in taught him, and the last, makeup, with raccoon eyes and blackened before she left him here alone nose and missing teeth. The words on the with It. card were in French. I do not speak Heroic Measures French. I recognized the words "visage" and "corpse." by Matthew Johnson
And then a bunch of stuff I was sure I could18 December 2006 not pronounce. SUPPORT US Pale as he was, it was hard to "Oh, go ahead and pronounce," Linda said. o Donate believe he would never rise from this bed. Even in the She was not yet laughing at me, but I could o Bookstore darkest times, she had never see she was preparing herself for some really feared for him; he had o Merchandise deeply satisfying chuckling. always been strong, so strong. COMMUNITY Hey, I could be a good sport. I said, "'Maquillage liquide.' Maybe liquid Love Among the Talus mask?" by Elizabeth Bear "You crack me up," she said. 11 December 2006 "And 'pour le visage et pour le corps.' That Nilufer raised her eyes to his. must mean for the face and for the dead It was not what women did to body. So, after the crime you can either men, but she was a princess, disguise yourself or the victim. Your and he was only a bandit. "I choice." want to be a Witch," she said. I turned the card over. On the back were "A Witch and not a Queen. I instructions in both French and English, but wish to be not loved, but wise. Tell your bandit lord, if the English made no sense. he can give me that, I might I read, "Hi ya, Mikey!" which was odd accept his gift." since my name is Mike. "When you're dead, when you're dead, no one wants to Archived Fiction Dating back to 9/1/00 look at your head." She laughed -- a little nervously, I thought. "Just body," she said, "not dead body."
