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magic boxed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning’s television supplies the only reliable account of last night. Parick emerged magic boxed, watching breakfast television as though it were an official statement. magic bulleted adj. The state of being drunk and expecting one neat remedy to cure the headache, dry mouth and missing coat. magic carpeted adj. The condition of a drinker who has travelled home by impossible-seeming stages and arrived with one shoe elsewhere. magic circled adj. The drunkenness of one who has enclosed the bed in protective territory and will not cross its boundary before noon. Dorka remained magic circled, treating the duvet’s edge as a line no sensible person crossed. magic constanted adj. Reduced by drink to the same small sum in every account: water, toast, and regret. Filip was magic constanted, allocating identical importance to toast, water and the unanswered messages. magic cookied adj. Softened by drink into a useless token, passed from hand to hand and meaningful only when returned later. magic cubed adj. Sharpened by drink into equal confusion in every direction, including the route from bed to bathroom. magic dusted adj. Loosened by drink into an unsteady, overconfident softness, with the morning arriving in disconnected fragments. magic ed adj. Emboldened by drink to give the preceding vowel an entirely new pronunciation, especially while ordering breakfast. magic eyed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where the wallpaper’s hidden picture becomes the morning’s principal appointment. Alfons lay magic eyed, waiting patiently for the breakfast room to reveal its concealed image. magic feminismed adj. Drunk past the point of treating the kitchen’s impossible happenings as evidence of structural patriarchy. Jakolbi got magic feminismed and blamed the overflowing sink on the household power structure. magic lamped adj. Drunk and rubbing the nearest warm vessel for relief, preferably with a request for tea and fewer consequences. Chanise sat magic lamped, rubbing a mug and asking it quietly for a less complicated morning. magic lantern showed adj. Drunk enough to present the previous evening as a moving slideshow, with several slides missing. Haji gave a magic lantern showed account of the party, pausing whenever the images became uncertain. magic lanterned adj. Drunk to the point where breakfast memories move, merge and repeat like an early projection. magic linked adj. Drunk past the point of remembering passwords, relying on yesterday’s temporary access and hoping it still works. Saray woke magic linked, trying every email in her phone as though one must unlock the morning. magic markered adj. Drunk beyond the point of keeping notes discreet, with the morning’s instructions written on whatever surface was available. Cora-rose woke magic markered, finding breakfast times written across her hand in several colours.