One: My lipstick.
The shade is Heart’s Blood.
Morbid, if you ask me.
I wanted to know if it was really the color of heart’s blood so I bought beef heart and tried dabbing my lips.
Close enough.
I emailed to congratulate the lipstick company on their realism. They did not respond.
Some purses contain pens, stray receipts, and lip balm. This one’s more exciting. This light-hearted, urban fantasy follows a woman, whose purse is full of secrets with a quest to champion. “Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse” was published in the May/June issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Keep the lipstick. Don’t send it back.
I loved this, Mandolin!
I really liked this – thanks for sharing! My favorite part was the passport.
I speak almost no French, so I popped this into Google translate to confirm my suspicion: “Ma petite passport! Restez ici! Tout le France t’aiment!”
But I had just used Google casually to check a word I was using in Spanish, which I do speak to an extent, so what I got was a translation from French to Spanish… which I understood just fine.
I thought you might be amused.
Grace
Oh, and “I keep it in a mint tin” made me laugh!
Grace