piece-speaking

Updated: May 12, 2025

Josie's piece-speaking talent was evidently a direct inheritance. Some might call it a taint. Two days before one of Josie's public appearances her mother would twist the child's hair into innumerable rag curlers that stood out in grotesque, Topsy-like bumps all over her fair head. On the eventful evening each rag chrysalis would burst into a full-blown butterfly curl.

Edna Ferber - Cheerful—By Request