Thus, the side on the left was almost entirely empty, ignoring a single malnourished, stray cat that was looking for food there.Lillith had been about to reply to Emil when the vial was thrown and the hell that had already broken loose multiplied. "We can negotiate this when lives aren'...
This time I got up and went to investigate and there – as large as life and right under my nose, clinging to the ligature was the bold-as-brass rodent staring straight back at me with an expression that seemed to say: “Oh yeah, so you’ve found me. Bully for you. What are you...
Hunched-over shoulders bent from the wings, In singing cut, into baked-over flame He let his soul go like a swan. Fall then, O fall then, copper heavy! Wings are ordained correctly: To fly! Lips, that have shouted the word: Respond! - They know, that this is not there - to die...
Curiously, one of tbe few his- toric fmm$s that can wear the Ulysses mantle with any grace is the hunched back of little George Dawson. Dawson, stunted and crippled in youth by what was probably polio, was a geologist-adventurer who, as much as anyone, laid the foundation for Canada's...
keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the...
began to soothe her to sleep at night. A toad hunched by a log was so intensely ugly she cried out in shock, while a fox, slipping through the pines, looked like the tip of a paintbrush dipped in orange. Her hands and legs became tan and useful. She could tie three kinds of sailor...
There was no one else around at that time of day to spy on me except for one dark-clad figure three benches away who was safely hunched over something he carefully unwrapped and put in his mouth. I thought it might be a caramel. (Another unhappy soul.) Later, with more sophistication...