Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: M.A. Kuzniar
- Language: English
- Genre: Fairy Tales
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It was a late November night when the wind was blowing like Father Frost
and the Thames was near frozen solid that Forster wondered if he had been
cursed.
He had begun the day sitting in his kitchen sink. His sketchpad propped
awkwardly upon one knee, he’d been attempting to capture the mellow
sunshine seeping down into their basement window and setting the whisky
glasses from last night aglow. Like melted butter. Only, halfway through
committing ink to paper, the light had shifted, leading Forster to abandon
his efforts. He’d started and grown bored of another five sketches until the
late afternoon ushered in a deep darkness that suited his sense of ennui. Not
long after, the little mantel clock had chimed six, reminding him of his
longstanding evening walk with his flatmate, and he had hurried out into the
bracing temperature.
November had whirled into London like a storm, frosting the spires and
domes, and leaving Forster with a childlike longing for snow. This was
heightened by the scent of roasted chestnuts drifting along the
Embankment. He set off in search of the cart and parted with a few coins
for a bag. The paper warmed his hands as he made his way to a bench
overlooking the river. Beside him, the light from a solitary streetlamp
puddled on the cobblestones as he stared out at the boats drifting past like
his thoughts. They set the river aglow with their cosy lanternlight and he
wished one would anchor.
Perhaps he ought to learn how to sail? Then he
could purchase a small boat that was in some disarray and spend time
learning how to fix it, polishing it until it gleamed on the water like a pearl,
and sleeping out on deck, watching the stars spattered over the roof of the
world. But – what of his decision to dedicate his life to art? He’d spent the
better part of this year attempting to search out a lone spark of inspiration,
but the muses had turned their faces from him and his sketchbooks were
filled with half-formed pictures.
Perhaps he had been cursed by some
hidden malevolence, leaving him destined never to finish them. Sometimes
they became flesh and slipped into his nightmares. A woman that had no
face, a city never finished, and a man that was not whole. These nightmares
had intensified now he had entered the final year of his twenties last month.
Twenty-nine. Another decade near completed without him making his mark
on the world.
‘If you think any harder, your brain will catch fire,’ came a familiar
voice.
Forster was lifted from his musings to find his flatmate, Marvin,
standing beside him. ‘Do you ever feel dissatisfied with your life?’ Forster
asked.
Marvin regarded him through murky blue eyes, the tip of his long nose
turning a delicate pink as he exhaled a plume of frozen air. ‘What is it now?
Penning the next great novel? Becoming a chef? Or—’ Marvin pinched a
roast chestnut from the paper, twirling it in his fingers as if searching for
inspiration. His gaze alighted on the river with a lick of mischief. ‘Or
running away on a boat?’
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