Leon opens the door wide. They all look at him. Social workers have two pretend faces, pretend Happy and Pretend Sad. They’re not supposed to get angry so they make angry into sad. This time they’re pretending to care about him and Jake and his mum.“I want to get my things,” he says.They all look […]

Mummo istuutui kelkalle ja Kaarlo potki jalallaan vauhtia. Mummo hyräili jotain, mistä Kaarlo ei saanut selvää. Hän kuuli sanat veemäisen vanha friidu ja akkain lait. Kirkonkylä jäi taakse ja piipuista nousevat savut kiertyivät yhdeksi savuksi, joka yhdenmukaistui korkeimmasta kohdastaan, suipponi ja oheni, mitä ylemmäs sen pää kiiri. Kaarlo oli väsynyt potkukelkkailusta, vaikka mummo ei paljon […]

Ẹniọlá shrugged; he was grateful for the food he had just eaten. The quantity of food available for dinner varied from day to day because his parents were still trying to pay off the landlord. In spite of his mother’s pleas, Ẹniọlá now refused to go begging again since none of the money would go […]

When they’d thrown their plastic cups away and pushed politely past the others back to their seats, the pianist returned to her bench and stared at the keys reflected there in the high ebony gloss with what seemed a superhuman concentration. Then she flung up her wrists, flared her nostrils, and the Hammerklavier was sprung […]