Recipe for rust ink

It's earth's surest colour.

‘Ostrich future’ by Maaike VanderMeer

I have always wanted to run like an ostrich. When I was a child, I thought I could. The trick was to run watching my own feet, until the paved stones of a housing complex in Nairobi, Kenya, began to blur. The ostrich is earth’s largest bird, our fastest bird, and can kill a lion with one kick. I didn’t think about th…