{"id":265664,"date":"2026-07-16T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/little-wild-laura-evans\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:20:29","slug":"little-wild-laura-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/little-wild-laura-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Wild – Laura Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Instinctively I pushed it away\u2014I knew if I didn\u2019t I\u2019d lose the moment\u2014but it was too late. I could only catch her edges, and her face was back the way it always is: a face in a dream, anyone\u2019s and no one\u2019s. OceanofPDF.com Day 28 Every so often I take the babies out to check them. I line them up on my chest of drawers and make sure they are all in good shape, and have not got damp or had their limbs begin to dissolve; I am always vaguely conscious of how easily I might dismember someone.<\/p>\n

At least, I have to go about things as if I might. Part of me thinks that boy, Higgins, was nothing but wine and delirium: a graze or bruise in a convenient place, and I imagined the rest to make it fit. But there\u2019s another part, more insistent by the day, that says, Do something. A spell. A curse.<\/p>\n

That smiles knowingly, when I think how stupid it sounds: broomsticks and pointy hats, black cats and covens. (As if I could find anyone to take tea with me, at the moment, let alone dance naked around a cauldron.) That says, Of course that kind of magic is silly. And, seductively: If you can\u2019t prove you\u2019re not, why not see if you are? OceanofPDF.com Day 29 A dream. My mother is knitting, and I am a cat. I have green eyes and padding paws and dense soft fur the colour of coal.<\/p>\n

My mother\u2019s needles click. There is a cat in this room, she says. How did it get in? I rub my head against her ankles. Perhaps, she says, I left a window open. Or it came in earlier, when I was out picking. Perhaps it came looking for catnip. Or mice\u2014but we know the birds take those. I lick my foreleg, and wait for her to drop the wool so I can chase it.<\/p>\n

Little cat, she says. I have a daughter, a Margaret, if she was here I\u2019d teach her a game. I prick up my ears. Cat\u2019s cradle, it is. I sit up straight. Teach me, I yowl. Teach me-ow. Very well, she says. Fetch me my sewing box, little cat. Now I am a cat who walks upright, who uses its paws like hands.<\/p>\n

When she opens the box it is a jewellery case, but better, because instead of hard, shining things it is gentle yarn, in colours she dyes herself: woad blue, tansy yellow, nettle grey-green. She pats the chair beside hers. Up here then, puss. Now, put out your paws. Being a cat, I hold up a bare foot. She tickles it, catches it by the heel, appraises it. What a mucky little cat.<\/p>\n

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\u2014Gioachino Rossini, La gazza ladra OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com Snare House SEPTEMBER 1937 OceanofPDF.com Half past Ten All morning they\u2019ve been coming up the Long Drive. I can\u2019t see them from here, the grass is too tall, and in any case there are the beeches; but I can hear the engines, the wheels crunching on the turning circle. (Fabian has been out three times to huff over his gravel, which came all the way from Chipping Campden and has only been laid a fortnight.)<\/p>\n

Half an hour ago there was a commotion: a tractor broken down on the village road, and the iceman\u2019s van unable to get by. You\u2019d have thought from the flapping it was Joanie herself who was stuck. The sculptor declaring he would have to make a duck instead of a swan, and Lucille trying to calm him, and Isaac bellowing barometric readings from the library window at two-minute intervals; and then Sheppard dispatched on his funny little groundsman\u2019s tricycle, and two of the boys after him with wheelbarrows, as if great slabs of ice are in the habit of turning to puddles at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

The heat is making them all ridiculous. Still, Lucille will be pleased. She has been on at Fabian to get a refrigerator. I am probably supposed to be making myself useful, but I\u2019ve been lying here so long I\u2019m not sure I could get up even if I wanted. It is that sort of heat that turns one into a slug. At breakfast Pip said it\u2019s to be a degree warmer than yesterday, which was a degree warmer than the day before, which was the warmest September day on record, and that if things carry on in this vein we should be hotter than Saudi Arabia within the fortnight.<\/p>\n

And Lucille said it was comforting to think of there being somewhere on the planet where this sort of temperature would feel positively frigid. Which I don\u2019t think even she believes\u2014but it does seem to help, imagining yourself somewhere heat belongs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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