ORIGIN: The Brush gave us a teddy bear getting in between a kiss. But recycling is important, and most stories go on after The End anyway. The kingdom wasn’t mine, and I never learned to ride a horse. I gave my first kiss in exchange for a teddy bear. I was tired of plucking daisy […]
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ORIGIN: Take a closer look at those eyes. Do you see her? Poor thing, she ate a poisoned apple and was left to rot in the woods. There’s no prince in sight, she’s at the mercy of those wild beasts. And you call yourself a prince? Shouldn’t you be falling on your knees to kiss
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ORIGINS: We were leafing through an old book, and one of the pictures caught our eyes. It was a fish, with what we can only call rosy cheeks. Its name, as it was written in that book, was Damsel of the Two Moons, and since we didn’t like any of the other names we found
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ORIGINS: The torn hot-air balloon of the third character in the original series reminded us of a circus tent. There were two halves, each one in the mouth of a wolf, and for some reason we thought of conjoined twins sharing a beautiful dress. I didn’t mind sharing my facial features with you. It was
ORIGINS: We read somewhere that the ancestors of dolphins were some kind of wolf, and we have a fondness for family portraits. It’s only a matter of time. I know that I won’t get to live underwater, but if I spend my life in this shore, my children won’t have to be wolves for long.
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ORIGINS: It’s all there in the eyebrows of the fourth character in the original series. The clock towers and the long-necked birds that rise from them like smoke, laying the cards on the sky. I grew up in a city where putting one’s cards on the table was frowned upon. I was allowed to have
Clock towers, long-necked birds and decks of cards. Read More »
ORIGINS: The word was GLOBOS, in other words, balloons. We went with hot-air balloons because the sun is hot too and it is meant to be wolfed down. And it just so happens that if you leave the G out that is what you get. Wolves. By the way, don’t think that there is no
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ORIGINS: Look at the eye of the sixth character in the original series. It’s clearly a blindfolded deer. The blindfold doubles as a nest, and there are two crestfallen little birds on each side, waiting for the food that hasn’t come yet. It’s right there, in its name. Deer. Dear. Love. Care. There was a