Hampton & Rabbit — Mind Tricks (excerpt)
Amanda and Hamish are standing in the stillness of a cobbled sea of stones on a wide street in SoHo, New York.
Store front windows reflect them against a sharp sky framed by arctic white clouds that stream perpetually from window to window like a ticker tape to two vanishing points up the linear plane of the street.
Amanda is wrapped in a cashmere cardigan tied into her waist. Each time they kiss, another one of her appears. There is now a scattering of Amanda’s around them, each lucid, polite and smiling to each other.
Amanda turns Hamish’s cheek away from looking around at them to looking at her and then she snaps her fingers and they all disappear. When he tries to kiss her again, her hand lifts to his chest to pause him. Her eyes tell him not to do that trick again.
As Hamish is thinking that he will decide which trick he will do, Amanda’s arms reach around his neck, she tilts her head and she pulls him to her kiss.
Hamish woke thinking how her tricks are so much better than his.
“Mind Tricks” is an excerpt from “Hampton & Rabbit”, novella. Available to read on request.
