A page of The Leaf With One Side, a gamebook. Pick a line at the bottom to go on, or start at the beginning.
The Dragonfly
Four wings, two to a page, and the book has to lie open flat for all four to show. The back pair is the broader. Each wing has a dark mark near its tip.
You close the book partway. The wings fold with a soft paper sound, the back pair under the front. You hold the page to the window, and the bend shows through as a faint line. You open it flat and close it again, for the sound.
The card reads: A dragonfly cannot fold its wings back over its body. Its relatives flew three hundred million years ago, and they could not either.
- Go back to the man with the brush.
- Turn to the mantis and meet its eye.
- Fold the whole page along the gutter, with the window behind it.
The back wings fold under the front pair with a soft paper sound. In Mechanical Bestiary the pages fold shut before they turn, and held upright your iPhone closes the book partway.
The book · Colophon and credits
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