Passionate weekends and shared dreams begin to shape the house they start to build together as Jeff begins to realize his dream of becoming an architect. As their relationship deepens, so do the wounds from past hurts, rousing ghosts from Jeff’s traumatic past when his fiancé cheated on him...
Forster, Woolf, and Shelley—all of them collected over the course of his life from the high-street’s second-hand bookstore, accompanying him through his years like a friend. He
afraid to die Mephistopheles says I will route your indentured soul from an eye an ear a navel a fingernail for the jaws of hell are always open Faust love has waded through my many dreams and orchestrations Mephistopheles opines we were all girls in another century baring our arms in an ...
Carmella Lowkis's new book, 'Spitting Gold,' is becoming one of the buzziest historical fiction debuts of the summer and Cosmo has a first look at an excerpt.
At least the sunshine would dry his pelt, still damp from plunging into the river. The log would find the shore soon. Perhaps there would be a bend in the river, or a spit of rocks jutting out to catch it. Once he was on dry land, he could begin the journey home. He had no id...
Excerpt from Enrique’s Journey The Boy Does Not Understand. His mother is not talking to him. She will not even look at him. Enrique has no hint of what she is going to do. Lourdes knows. She understands, as only a mother can, the terror she is about to inflict, the ache Enrique...
as if they were far away. And whatever clarity of the sound I was processing was coming only from my right ear. I waited for another car. And not a minute later, the same. I couldn’t tell which direction the cars were coming from. They may as well have been doing donut...
The walls are brick, stone, cut rushes that had soured, all bound together and made smooth by river mud and lime wash. They are two feet thick. A house built like a fortress. Even when he is alone, he is safe. 1 2 This is a complete excerpt from Chapter One of Forever by ...
t expect to find the right house immediately. but thanks to an astute realtor, i soon discovered the grand vintage new orleans home of my dreams. i’ll admit, it was a tad pricey given james’s parameters, but did i mention it was twice the size and half the price of...
The path was growing steeper, and as the patrol reached the top of a rise, Nightheart glimpsed SkyClan’s forest in the distance. He shivered. Leafstar had warned Tigerstar in no uncertain terms that unless he withdrew his warriors from RiverClan’s land soon, she would drive him out,...