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Tag: Fiction

Beth gives a massage — A Twitter Story

She wasn’t young any more. You can’t get a new life & still be young. The lines that were miss­ing on her hands were set­tling in her face. March 4, 2011 2:49 pm via Tweet­DeckReplyRetweetFavorite @drmstream drm­stream Beth kept her kit in the bot­tom drawer of the counter at the cor­ner of the stu­dio. The […]

…scenes that seemed never to have been written before.”

Ham­mett is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he him­self thought the most of is the record of man’s devo­tion to a friend. He was spare, fru­gal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writ­ers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written […]

They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long…they did not know why.”

How do you know that? Have you been there to see? And if you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none … And no one has a right to say that no water babies exist till they have seen no water babies exist­ing, which is […]

Looking beyond the looking glass

via bl.uk The British Library has a remark­able col­lec­tion of orig­i­nal man­u­scripts avail­able online, includ­ing the hand­writ­ten man­u­script for Alice in Won­der­land. Click through to it and peruse. The best com­par­i­son I can think of is William Blake for the absolutely organic rela­tion­ships of image and text. The entire work is a piece of art, […]

Thinking about a warm place

via stuartngbooks.com From Chris Sanders, cre­ator of Lilo & Stitch “Maile was inspired by the many trips I’ve taken to Hawaii. May her warm smile bring a lit­tle bit of aloha to you — because you and I don’t live there and we prob­a­bly live some­place cold and rainy with too many cars and maybe […]