InklingArt

1. He said his name was Cu. "Cue like a signal, or Q like the letter?" Neither of those. "A queue? A line?" No, not that either. His favorite class was history. Herod killed his wife Mariamne and a tear dropped onto Cu's cheek. "He really loved her, you know, but he was afraid. I hate Discord," he said. "What do you mean?" "Nothing." I watched him scribble poetry in his notebook and squish notes into the margins. 2. At lunch he sat with me. "You like apples?" I said. "Yeah, and seafood." He ate apples while girls crowded around our table. Even though Cu had stolen an angel's face somewhere on his way to being born (he had the b