Limeglass Kite Foxes — Kite Maker Foxes Reference Sheet

The story of Limeglass Kite Foxes

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

The Limeglass foxes could fly without kites. This made their annual kite competition particularly difficult to judge. Everyone suspected everyone else of giving the paper a little lift. This year the oldest fox tied six chairs to the grass and invited the judges to sit in them instead.

The foxes handed each judge a spool. For the first few minutes only one kite rose, a crooked diamond patched at the tip. Its judge had never flown before. She felt the sudden tug through her elbows and laughed so loudly that the other five people stopped staring up and looked at their hands.

One spool was wound too tightly. Another had a rough notch that caught the thread. A third judge could manage the line perfectly well with one hand if someone would kindly hold the handle still. The foxes fetched sandpaper, widened grips and stitched wrist loops from the cuffs of their old jackets.

By evening six kites floated above the chairs. The judges wanted to know which had won. The oldest fox took a photograph of the six pairs of hands and hung it in the workshop. Beneath it she nailed the crooked diamond, patch and all. The next year there were twelve chairs, and an entire shelf devoted to comfortable spools.

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