The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

Judging by the solicitude my father showed him, he must have been an important somebody with access to sluts and blessed virgins... as well as miracles up his sleeves, besides that he was mute, he expressed himself through throat sounds, the way dogs do. He also had only one leg, stuck in the very middle like a fool's bauble, and he hopped along this earth like a magpie, propelled by his cane.

From The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gatan Soucy1970, translation by Sheila Fischman 2000. Published byHouse of Anansi.