Yearly Archives: 2007

Meeting of the writers’ club

So used are we to writing in our solitudes that when we meet we sit around and wait for someone else to do that which will break this mood that makes us feel like wallflowers on a date. And when … Continue reading

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Katisha of Abyssinia

Wide-eyed young princess lounges all day on her elegant cushions, waking only to received the hissed instructions of the old queen: I am your superior! I have first place in all things! You are but a tiny atom in my … Continue reading

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Cheering the dying

I’ll stay a minute; you should have a nurse put these in water, or they’ll not — last. I would have come in yesterday — what’s worse than promises unkept? You’d be aghast how often people promise to turn up; … Continue reading

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