They start growing into her skin and then they work. That imagery is the sort of visual that sticks with me. "The wings arrive in the mail and she has to put them together, feather-by-feather. I like that sort of magic that feels everyday - magic that can come in the mail. I probably had my first Kafka exposure when I was like seven or eight. The comic book is actually a retelling of Kafka's The Metamorphosis. It's about a girl who sends away for a pair of wings from an ad in the back of a comic book. "Mail-Order Wings is a middle-grade book. He reads in his closet to be alone with the story, something I did when I was little. "I did a thing with The Starless Seawhere I gave a quality that I had as a child to the main character Zachary. Beatrice Gormley is an American author of children's books.
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