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Sketches
“
All of my imaginings about Melody
were like sketch drawings in comparison to the vividness of her.
And I imagined a lot, but not her warmth, her sweetness,
her love for her family, her plans to go into space engineering.
She laughed from her belly and it would shake her whole body.
She hummed when impatient, she cursed loudly
when she was happy. I collected all these moments of her,
filled in my thought sketches with color and texture, painted her
portrait
in my mind. I don't ever want to fo
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― You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
― You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
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The sketchbook was still open on the table and I rushed to it.
It was the one that Edward used over the summer of 1862. I had sat beside him while he made those very lines on that piece of cotton paper: studies for the painting he had planned, something he had been thinking about for years. On the following pages, I knew, were his sketches of the clearing in the woods and the fairy mound and a stone croft by the river, and at the bottom corner of one, in loose scratched lines, the heart he had p
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― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
