마사는 아내이고 엄마이지만 무엇보다 이야기를 들려주는 사람입니다. 이야기에는 힘이 있습니다. 그래서 마사에게는 힘이 있습니다. 《이처럼 사소한 것들》의 작가 클레어 키건의 소설 속에서 찾아볼 수 있는 여러 강인한 여성 인물 중에서도 단연 돋보이는 마사의 이야기 속에는 어떤 비밀이 담겨 있을까요? 키건의 단편 소설집 Walk the Blue Fields에 수록되어 있습니다.
Seldom did neighbors come into that house but whenever they did, Martha told stories. In fact, she was at her best with stories. On those rare nights they saw her pluck things out of the air and break them open before their eyes. They would leave remembering no the fine old house that always impressed them or the man with the worried look that owned it or the strange flock of teenagers but the woman with the dark brown hair which got looser as the night went on and her pale hands plucking unlikely stories like green plums that ripened with the telling at her hearth. After these stories they were sometimes too frightened to go back out into the night and Deegan had to walk them as far as the road.
Athena's Owl 