#dragonwings

"Father did not say anything when I put on my boots and hat and went down to the town to use the store's electric talker, or telephone, as the demons called it." 🍵

"Her house was still standing, but the tenement house to the left had partially collapsed; the wall on our side and part of the front and back had just fallen down, revealing the apartments within: the laundry hanging from lines, the old brass beds, and a few lucky if astonished people just looking out dazedly on what had once been walls." 🍵

"Now we were here to stay." 🍵

"Many demons called Tang men John because they insisted, they never could get the hang of our real names." 🍵

"Mother, of course, asked Hand Clap to take a small gift over to Father." 🍵