“Palimpsest” by Catherynne M. Valente April 1, 2008 – Posted in: Fiction, Free Content, Paper Cities

16th and Hieratica -- A fortune-teller’s shop: palm-fronds cross before the door. Inside are four red chairs with four lustral basins before them, filled with ink, swirling and black. A woman lumbers in, wrapped in ragged fox-fur. Her head amid heaps of scarves is that of a frog, mottled green and bulbous-eyed, and a licking pink tongue keeps its place in her wide mouth. She does not see individual clients. Continue reading