Our name is spurred by one of the great poems of the twentieth century, ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg, a work whose words, verses and imagery threw open the possibilities for how we write, speak and publish. Our name is also inspired by the notion that it is the writer’s role to ‘...
six villagers were found dead. One evening the village was shaken by the sound of a blood curdling scream. The next morning, a young farmer named Eamon was found dead in his barn. His face was frozen in a mask of terror. Deep, jagged scratches marred his chest as if something ...
But the moon would often cry, become angry and pull at me even harder. The more I resisted its fiendish pull the angrier it would get, and then use its force to pull me back to stare at it. Forcing me to observe the rough smoothness of the sphere. Scholars and astrologists would of...
In the cool,new‑made morning, with the dew winking on leaf and flower, Giles stood in the door, having woken unrefreshed, sore at heart, time stale within him. The bed of four‑o’clocks beside the door with deep green shiny leaves and tight‑fisted pink flowers had slung upon i...
“The Merling Queen has chosen a new Mermaid to take the place of the one that drowned. She is the daughter of a Prestayn serving maid, thirteen and penniless, but lovely.” “在开始的时候,他们都是这样的。”慈祥的人说道,“除非是亲眼见到,否则你不可能知道她是否可爱,但你现在看不到。孩子...
11 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days. 13 On the sabbath day we went outside ...
Plague was a frequent visitor to the squalid and rat infested tenements of Edinburgh. But one of the worst visitations came in 1645 and the residents of Mary King's close were decimated by it. The City fathers, in an ill-conceived and barbaric attempt to contain the contagion walled these ...
Drax and the rest of the group traveled to Knowhere to deliver the Orb to Taneleer Tivan, to whom Gamora had agreed to sell the Orb. As they approached the city, Drax was amazed by the incredible structure, which Gamora explained had been built out of the severed head of an ancient ...
Today I walked alongside the river that lay leaden under a slightly bruised sky.The surface was still; even the ducks had gone.In the distance the city rose like a toothless gap in the horizon. Joggers ran past leaving a mild scent of sweat and vanity in the air.An arrogance of bike ...
While the sand of a creek bed is soft, being woken in the middle of the night with a raging torrent flowing through the campsite is not recommended. The detritus carried by such torrents can be extremely dangerous to life and limb. Once I witnessed a teenager, the son of one of my ...