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The setting sun threatened to consume me—it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
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― On Being a Rat and Other Observations
― On Being a Rat and Other Observations
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In a flash it came to me - might not people who were forced to spend their working hours between walls like to hear about what went on in a hill-top croft, of how it was possible to get an immense amount of fun and satisfaction out of lifting loads of mud into a cart, even though your boots were leaking and you knew there was not enough in the kitty to buy another pair? Would they like to know about the way light could stream down a blue hillside on a spring noon, how a lark could suddenly leap
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― A Croft in the Hills
― A Croft in the Hills
To commemorate the re-release of Jess Lourey's popular Murder Mystery by Month series, set in a …more
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