Margaret Leigh
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Margaret Leigh
Sutty and I were two different kinds of bad cop. Our being partnered together was a sort of punishment for us both, and we each tried to make things as difficult as possible for the other. It was the only thing we had in common.
from The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox
There was no lull from news bulletins coming through the radio; the French stations told how the English people were digging trenches in Hyde Park, and the English stations told how the French were calm and ready for anything.
from Blitz Writing by Inez Holden
In Shakespeare’s England, the Vikings were taken up as violent catalysts in the early story of the kingdom’s greatness. Rediscovered during the Enlightenment as a sort of ‘noble savage’, the figure of the Viking was enthusiastically adopted by the nationalist Romantics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Searching for their own emerging ide
... See morefrom The Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price
—Think about something you would like to share in a speech that is special to you or makes you feel vulnerable. Do you have an insecurity that you have improved upon? What is the problem you have overcome? What’s the life challenge that other people struggle with that you have also struggled with? Make a list of ten ideas. Keep them to yourself for
... See morefrom How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop
And so before the summer was over, we gave up. The kids were too busy indulging their new selves and quit playing make-believe out in the woods. And Gretchen and I were lost in our private worlds of self-disgust and conjugal disharmony. By Christmas we’d forgotten about the portal, and the clearing began to fill in. We did what people do: we heaved
... See morefrom Invaders by W. P. Kinsella, Jim Shepard,
Hanslip’s weakness was a somewhat ostentatious self-presentation. He affected an old-fashioned style, and had had his metabolism tweaked so that he stabilised at about ten per cent overweight: enough to give him a more solid look without requiring frequent adjustments to the heart.
from Arcadia by Iain Pears
clockwise is only clockwise because that is the direction of time, of a shadow, on a sundial in the northern hemisphere.
from Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker
- In unpredictable times, poetry leaves the safe, familiar ways of knowing and speaking and listens out into new forms of being and creating. It searches for new insights between the known, it fathoms the space between people, between us and the living world, between different ways of seeing and shaping the world. It listens for new ways of being tha... See more
from The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge by Mike Kauschke
When properly recited in appropriate surroundings, Viking-Age poetry can taste like cold iron on the tongue, its complex rhyme schemes building upon one another like layers of frost—treacherous but beautiful.
from The Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price