Tear of a Sphinx
By Kate Macleod
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One day a sphinx came to the city at the center of the world, ate half of the guests at the prince's wedding, and settled to roost atop the palace.
The cost to free the city of this beast? A single tear from her eye. The cost of failure? She eats you.
Sacmis watches as her mother dances for the sphinx. The beast crushes her under one lion's paw and leaves her broken in the sand. Her mother, the finest dancer in the known world, failed. The sphinx remains, her stony heart still unmoved, waiting for the next artist to try.
A tale of finding your place in the world even under the most difficult circumstances, "Tear of a Sphinx", a short story that brings to life an Egyptian-like city on a river that ties into the "Goddess-Bereft World" series.
Kate Macleod
Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.
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TEAR OF A SPHINX
The patter of the drums faded away and my mother's little footsteps slowed with it, leaving nothing but the eerie drone of the pipe and the long sweeping motions of my mother's arms, her entire body. I knew she was thinking of her home beyond the horizon where the wind made the sea of grass dance in the same lazy way.
And for a moment, just for an instant, I saw a shine in the sphinx's eye. I wasn't the only one who saw it; a wave of emotion rustled the crowd around me. We were all about to hold our breath, as if such a gesture could grant a wish or avert a fate.
But the moment was gone before a single one of us could suck in a breath to hold. My mother's arms wrapped to one side in preparation for a turn, the drummer's fingers hovering over the drum skin, about