a smooth stone to polish her feet and elbows, coconut milk for her hair, salt crystals, and a midnight cloth to shield her from view, even if no one dares come by the river, lest they be put to death for straying eyes. You would hold the knife yourself, slit their throat, pluck th...
But there are three meanings to the line: We’re not doing “kid” things (kiddin) we’re doing “grown” things (groanin) When someone “kids” (jokes) you laugh. If it’s not funny, one might groan in disappointment instead Moaning (or groaning) is a sound that most people make ...
for an unqualified yes, let me hasten to remind you that in the long run, it truly is better for your book if the agent of your dreams (and Millicent, the stalwart soul s/he has entrusted to narrowing the thousands of queries and hundreds of submissions a good agent receives to...
While that may well be true, there’s a pretty good reason that agencies expect anyone who intends to work with them to learn how to write a professional-sounding query: it’s quite an efficient means of assuring that the writers they pick up will have gained at ...
John 11 (KJV) 38 Jesus therefore again groaning (crying) in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.John 11 (WYC) 38 Therefore Jesus again making noise in himself, came to the grave. And there was a den, and a stone was laid thereon....
(But let’s amend the “Pour yourself a drink” to “Make yourself some tea or take a bath,” because it’s 2017, and we need to be up for yoga by 7am.) Step three: Do the following every day for 40 days: (Stop groaning! 40 days is not that long! Start now and you’ll ...
Oh, this is an interesting one: it tells us that we can expect entries to be coming from all over the English-speaking world, as well as that the judges will expect Ima to have spell-checked her entry. (Always a good idea, right?) When a contest’s rules go out of its ...