Braxten Rutherford

Mine Magic, Mundane

Everyone has their own magic words. You write your first in crayon, in the pages of a rainy-day coloring book, or on the back of the kid’s menu, or if your parents are particularly unlucky, the living room wall. You grin in wonder and delight as this made-up word inexplicably shutters the blinds, or changes the television channel, or spins a tornado in your chocolate milk, or turns your teeth green.