Q: If you could have any super power, what would it be?
A: One ability I always fancied was the Fool’s skill-tipped fingers from Robin Hobb’s ‘Realm of the Elderlings’. The ability to know something intimately and completely by touching it. To know its past and future, its properties and potential. And the fact that such an ability can be turned off by simply wearing a glove. A low-key power with few responsibilities attached and hardly any chance of me becoming the target of a maniacal villain.
Hannah Hulbert’s story “A Witch’s Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 22 May 2020.
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