Abstract
Years before the abandonment was announced, the older had already been building the dollhouse for the younger, and so the younger said she would not give herself up to be left until she was allowed to play with it just once. When at last it was complete, the parents granted the younger a mere hour to play, after which they promised the sisters would both be taken away. But in the odd ticking of that hour the younger found a new world, one of fast incident tucked inside slow time, and inside the dollhouse each room was complete with tiny furniture, each closet stocked with tiny clothes that fit the paper dolls she found sleeping in the beds, one doll for the older and one for the younger...
Cover Page Footnote
"The Architect's Gambit" was originally published at Booth.
Recommended Citation
Bell, Matt
(2014)
"The Architect's Gambit,"
Booth: Vol. 6
:
Iss.
9
, Article 3.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/booth/vol6/iss9/3