Spilled Ink by Nadia Hashimi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nadia Hashimi
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Siblings Fiction
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Even with my comforter pulled over my head, I hear the tap,
the pause, the two quick taps, and one final tap. I peek at my
alarm clock and groan to realize ten minutes have already
gone by since it buzzed.
I roll over and rap my knuckles against the wall in reply.
Tap. Tap-tap. Tap.
I’m awake, I tell him. Barely.
It’s been hard to fall asleep lately. I remember seeing
midnight come and go. What time did I drift off? I feel around
on my bed and my finger snags on the fraying threads of my
comforter, nothing more. I roll over onto my stomach and
hang my arm off the side of the bed, patting the carpet until I
find the spiral binding. I pull the sketchbook onto my lap, the
reading light still clipped onto the back cover. I click it a
couple of times but it stays dark. I’ve drained yet another
battery.
I sit up and blink the grogginess away. Pens hidden in the
folds of my comforter roll onto the floor. At least I
remembered to cap them. Archival ink pens aren’t cheap, and I
just bought this ultra-fine-tipped set of twelve. Is it possible
that in my insomnia, in some half-conscious state, I channeled
my inner muse and came up with an inspired drawing?
I look at the page, creased where my hand must have been
when I fell asleep. I’ve been working on this drawing for a
month now, and something just doesn’t feel right about it.
Yusuf calls my drawings edgy. I just like an image with a
twist. I flip to the previous page. Two weeks ago, I drew a
winged woman walking away from a tree with a stiletto heel
impaled into its trunk. I stopped showing my drawings to my
parents after they wanted me to explain what I meant by a cow
wearing a crown in a frying pan. I thought “a picture is worth
a thousand words” meant that you don’t have to say the
thousand words.
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