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Paul Davis | The Moth GrandSLAM (Identity Crisis)
youtube.comA large, pale moth fluted around the room and alighted on the rim of the lampshade, imprinting its shadow on the wall. I reached over to flick it away, but my hand was stayed by a voice in my head. The souls of the people we once loved, come to watch over us.
The House Of Doors, Tan Twan Eng
One day his father said to him, “You haven’t burned a wing in months, boy, and it looks to me as if you were never going to. All your brothers have been badly burned flying around street lamps and all your sisters have been terribly singed flying around house lamps. Come on, now, get out of here and get yourself scorched! A big strapping moth like
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Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
In the darkness, moths roved on the air like tiny floating boats, like the ones that passed over the Little Mermaid and made her tremble with longing.
Laura Lonsdale • The Island
This beast is preceded by a reputation that transcends oceans and mountains: it is said to originate from the depths of the forests of Hyrcania, the wild, rugged, evergreen land that borders the Caspian Sea. Its name is at once a curse and an incantation.
It is reputed to be swift as an arrow, wild as the Tigris, the fastest flowing of all rivers, f
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