The day after the magician’s wife delivers him the wonderful news, he finds himself alone and sitting across from the floor mirror, practicing divining a randomly chosen card into place—except now, he cannot stop his fingers from trembling, losing their spot on the deck, and forcing him to restart, so that after three days straight of trying and failing to get it right, he resigns himself to spending the rest of his life alone in this room—flipping, shuffling, flipping—desperately attempting to steady his hands, all while asking his reflection: Is this your card? Is this your card?
Macy Craig’s work has appeared in Rejection Letters, Expat Press, Burial Magazine, BULL, Some Words, and Dodo Eraser.