Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells'Writing is a cover for necromancy', Carmen Innocencia accuses her creator, Flamingo Tongue, a young Jamaican writer. Carmen is not the only one of Flamingos creations to confront her author, for her characters and their tragic, heartening story come vividly alive, perhaps too alive, and just to make sure she can control them, Flamingo makes doll figures of them, but even then There is Alva Donovan, blinded in childhood, with one seeing eye, one