Mabh Savage(Minor spoilers for The Long Earth) That’s really difficult as most are quite dangerous in some way, and while I have a romantic urge towards adventur…more(Minor spoilers for The Long Earth) That’s really difficult as most are quite dangerous in some way, and while I have a romantic urge towards adventure, getting eaten by a dragon or blown up isn't necessarily tempting! Maybe the science fiction realm of the Long Earth (Baxter, Pratchett) as the idea of sliding in between parallel and mostly unspoilt versions of Earth is beautiful.(less)
We sit in the living room and listen to the wind and rain, each drop a fat slap on the box window, like being in a large tent or some sort of shopping container — slap, slap, slap while the trees bend impossibly far.
Though the Solstice has passed and the days are lengthening night still looms, evening drawing painfully close even at three thirty in the afternoon, the gloom thickened by the weather