from influenza, from their repercussions. Reading it during the the ongoing era of COVID, Dickey writes, “Woolf understood that a dystopian future would not look likeThe Hunger GamesorThe Roadso much as it would the everyday,
weekend, she might even earn some of her boy pants back,” he teased, “but she will never get the underwear back, though, from now on, it’s panties every day for my little sissy. Heather told me to make sure I used lots of the lotion provided after I shaved, or I would really...
I sit in my chair at home, alone, drinking coffee and staring into the steam rising from the cup in the dim light of closed curtains. Sometimes I stare for what feels like hours. I wish Cameron were home, yet I’m glad he isn’t. We can talk and laugh and discuss the world’s ...
Thus when a message appeared from ‘Illicit Encounters’ (a website specifically targeting those unhappy unfortunates people unable or unwilling to divorce or separate from their partners) from a married New Zealander living in London, I didn’t immediately delete the message. Yes, I wrinkled my ...
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She took a biscuit from the packet and began to drink her coffee. To her great surprise, the stranger in the next seat calmly took one of the biscuits and ate it. Stunned, she couldn't bring herself to say anything, nor even to look at the stranger. Nervously she continued reading. ...
Yesterday started with breakfast–for Carol and me, it was at a darling little place called Ellie’s Table at the Egan House, a few blocks from the inn. We had quiche and Carol also had a chocolate croissant the size of a football, while I added a slice of cinnamon crumb coffee cake...
- Taking the big (and heavy) wooden sign from in front of the CPO barracks (barracks 5) and using it for fire wood for our bonfire on the beach.It burned great by the way. - Burning the Day/Mid, staying up off the day watch drinking, until the mid. ...
A team from the School of Dentistry's Violence Research Gro up studied drinking habits in children aged 11～ 16 in England.They found not only a link between drink and vi olence but also that children who drank were more likely to be hit,even if they weren't violent themselves. The ...
In his preface to The Collected Stories, Davies offered a wonderful analogy from the difference between short stories and novels: “Compared with the novel, that great public park so often complete with draughty spaces, noisy brass band and unsightly litter, the enclosed and quiet short story ...