WORLD VOICES

CORONOLOGY
  BY CLAIRE BATEMAN

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C   When unfreezing a woman, you must take particular care to thaw her crown at a slower rate than the rest of her body, otherwise, it will swell and crack, then melt and drip, swiftly hardening into an adamantine mask. Your next-door-neighbor who never leaves her house?—it's not agoraphobia from which she suffers, but the calcification of the Aurora Borealis all over her face, just because somebody was in too much of a hurry; somebody wasn't willing to take their time.