/tags/liquify/Recent content in Liquify on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2016/02/07/petras-magical-birthday-surprise/Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2016/02/07/petras-magical-birthday-surprise/<p>A birthday present was in the offing for Petra.  I was taking her to a special adult’s only performance.  Magic it was, as I’d stopped there previously and seen the magic performed.</p> <p>It was just what Petra would enjoy.  Petra was a fan of magic acts.  She’d tell me how she wished she could be an assistant in someone’s performance of prestidigitation.  Her blue eyes would sparkle when she spoke of how she wanted to be the one divided into pieces or flattened or seemingly magically transformed by a magician.  Of course she knew it was all stage magic, just an illusion to make people think ‘real’ magic had actually occurred.  Still she told me she often dreamed of it being real, just for fun!</p>