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David F. Porteous

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The Sculptor Of Frog Lane - WIP2 - Some Redrafting

A few weeks ago I started to rework some of the material in TSOFL. I had previously shared first draft material, and much of that has been changed, but I want to leave it on the site as a record of progress.

The book currently sits at just under 57,000 words, and I would guess that this is around a quarter of the story (it's going to be a big book). I've made some revisions which are purely structu Read more of this blog post »
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A few weeks ago I started to rework some of the material in TSOFL. I had previously shared first draft material, and much of that has been changed, bu Read more of this blog post »
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“After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“There is no human being as happy as a dog who knows what he is supposed to do and has just done it. Dogs are, in this way and in all others, entirely reliable.” “Where”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.”
David F. Porteous, Singular

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
"That's not my religion," Murray said. "My religion just says duck.”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.”
David F. Porteous, Good Witch

“This is a picture of him from 1919, just after the war, looking like he slept in that uniform all the way from France. He still had that face, but he wasn't the same. I know there's men who came back changed: the Paterson boy up in Brownville hung himself that summer. Nobody talked about it much, and I suppose that was for the best. But Jack wasn't like that; it hadn't been a terrible thing for him, I don't think. Or if it had been, then it was one of those terrible things you get through and it sets you free.”
David F. Porteous, The Death of Jack Nylund
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