Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! We're picking up right where last week left off, so if you missed #503, go read it first. That one asked whether you'd trade your looks for a hundred extra years of life, and I answered yes almost immediately, then spent the … Continue reading Question of the Week #504
Wonder
Stone Watch
The rain came down in cold, slanted sheets the night Mara Osei discovered the city's oldest secret. She was eleven, small for her age, and had no business being out after midnight. But her cat, Ptolemy, a patchy orange stray she'd rescued from behind the bodega on Alcott Street, had slipped through a torn window … Continue reading Stone Watch
The Last Unicorn and the Tax Collector
A Fairy Tale for Modern Times In the kingdom of Eldermere, where morning mist clung to ancient oak trees and starlight pooled in forgotten meadows, there lived a tax collector named Cornelius Quillbottom. He was a man of precise measurements and careful calculations, with ink-stained fingers and spectacles that perpetually slipped down his pointed nose. … Continue reading The Last Unicorn and the Tax Collector
Before Seeing Wonder Woman
I'm excited. I'm not sure how to properly form words and sentences to convey how excited I am about this movie coming out. I'll be going to see it tonight at 7:30 p.m. And then I will experience, what I assume will be, roughly two and a half hours of awesomeness. Wonder Woman has been … Continue reading Before Seeing Wonder Woman
