I didn’t think the ceremony would be that big of a deal, but when the day arrived and my family was in the crowd and the stadium was packed and all my peers were wearing their caps and gowns and everyone was happy and smiling and taking pictures and I walked across the stage as my...
As for Christmas ’74, the schedule just shows Paris Olympia on December 16th –where French super-fan Gerard Goyer missed out, two days after his 19th birthday, as he was doing compulsory military service – and a TopPop performance in the Netherlands on the 29th, appearing with Mud, The...
9. These three self-translations remind me of Samuel Beckett’s three novels, Molloy, Malone and The Unnameable as they were first written in French and were later self-translated by him into English. 10. There’s a number of short stories published in Australia and elsewhere, such as Canad...
we haven’t dipped our toes once in the swollen, rushing current. But we haven’t hauled up our floor fans from the cellar, either, the temperatures being so mild. Well, that’s not true. One day, the heavy
s memory of her relationship with a Chinese man in French Indochina (Vietnam) during the 1950s. Sometimes, the narrator returns again and again to a moment in time–she is standing on the boat, wearing a fedora, when her lover first sees her. Other times, the story takes a leap ...
Sometimes I post about how much I miss my mom on Facebook. Usually around Christmas or Mother’s Day. Sometimes around her birthday. People often offer words of comfort in response: “She’s with you every day.”“She’s there, just not physically!”“She’s always in your heart.”“...
a坐在落地窗前,上着网,听着歌,看着散文,偶尔抬头还可以看到闪烁着微弱光芒的星星 Sits in front of the French window, on the net, is listening to the song, reads the prose, occasionally gains ground also may see is glittering the weak ray star[translate] ...
I settled Gran E (as we affectionately called her) at her kitchen table and closed the french doors to her living and dining room. From her vantage point she could see the back half of the scene and I was thankful she couldn’t see her living room, for the state it soon took on. ...
Francesca’s latest Wartime in the Valleys novel, Hope in the Valleys, features Elizabeth Meredith who becomes a VAD nurse on the French war front in the Great War. But what did that entail? Apparently one nickname for the VAD nurses, working voluntarily in hospitals during the First World ...
English、Arabic、Czech、Dutch、Filipino、French、German、Hebrew、Hindi、Indonesian、Italian、Malay、Polish、Portuguese、Romanian、Russian、Spanish、Turkish、Ukrainian、Vietnamese 年齢 17+Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive ThemesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or ReferencesInfrequent/Mild Sexual Conten...