Poetic Prose


On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Night Circus
Circe
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Lolita
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Autobiography of Red
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The God of Small Things
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
The Waves
Jonathan Harnisch
He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a stranger might cross the threshold and finish the story he can’t bring himself to end. It isn’t bravery. It’s surrender in disguise. He doesn’t wish for peace, not even sleep—just an ending that isn’t authored by his own hand. A final act. A random mercy. That’s all he asks.
Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably. “She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.
Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

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