A very pleasing English farmer, who had been educated in Belgium, came and ordered a bottle of champagne, and shyly begged me to drink a glass, whereupon we talked of crops and the like; and an excellent specimen of a colonist he appeared: very gentle and unaffected, with homely good sen...
I made the international gesture for crushing a handful of dope, being careful to remove the pips and stalks, snapping the neck off a wine bottle, making a girrick, inserting said girrick into the bottleneck, filling the neck with weed, wrapping a sulfie around the neck, putting it to ...
That was at 2:30 in the morning & I hadn't eaten so a lucky break for me), I got about 2 hours sleep curled up in a slit trench with a raincoat over me. When we came back, we cleaned our half tracks & our 57's, cleaned up ourselves (got the ticks off) and got about 2 ...
This is O.K., except he forgot about poison ivy. I won the backstroke, which gives me two and a half gold stars. If I get over fifty gold stars by Parent's Day, then I win a Leadership Prize which is what my father expects of me. I'm making a napkin-ring in shop which is ...
The bottle of gin in his flight bag was the pin being pulled and with my rejection, the bomb explodes. He grabs my left buttock and claws with such force that I yelp in pain, stunned as he seizes me into a side headlock. He’s shouting what he likes to do to “boys”—profane...
If you have heard the agent speak at a conference, read an article she has written in a writer’s magazine or online, or even just noticed that your favorite author thanked her in the acknowledgments of a book you liked, mention that in the first line of your query letter. If you have...
I think. In reality at this point I’m just hoping I don’t die with a handful of poison ivy while sitting on the hole we call a latrine. To say the least I was the worst soldier in the worst army on the planet. The simple fact I’m alive might make that statement slightly ...
and beastly drunk, a cold, bitter night and a bottle of liquor in his pocket. This was pretty near another case of manslaughter as was said by some of the papers when a man was drowned in Summerside through being drunk. Now, gentlemen who gave the certificates to this man for this ...
except he forgot about poison ivy. I won the backstroke, which gives me two and a half gold stars. If I get over fifty gold stars by Parent's Day, then I win a Leadership Prize which is what my father expects of me. I'm making a napkin-ring in shop which is worth four stars ...