Clan Destine Press Blog — Clamour and Mischief

By Narrelle M Harris I fell for corvids the way Hazel Grace Lancaster falls for Augustus Waters in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” Or perhaps it’s more appropriate to go with that line’s more ominous inspiration, when, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character explains how you go bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” When it comes to corvids – crows, ravens, jackdaws, magpies and jays – the bright and dark go together. Harbingers of doom and guardians of the realm, both. Playful...