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“He charged again. She jabbed the cleat into his ribs,
then brought it up under his jaw with a savage upper-
cut. He reeled, blood now pouring from his nose, but he
didn’t go down.”
― Secrets
then brought it up under his jaw with a savage upper-
cut. He reeled, blood now pouring from his nose, but he
didn’t go down.”
― Secrets
“I climb the vine-covered walls
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
“We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
― Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
― Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“Ho-ho,” called one of the Labradors, as the pair were spied, “strangers. Not come to steal our balls have you?” he threw loudly at Loki. “Only you look a bit beagleish to me, and beagles have a reputation for thieving balls. “I’ll have your balls, mate,” replied Loki. “Disrespecting the beagle family. Only I see the vet has beaten me to it.”
― Cerberus
― Cerberus
“Colonel Aubertin and his two colleagues sat on a park bench in the private garden of Dorset Square. Rougemont sat between his two superiors, pleased that for once the commandant appeared to have had an abstemious lunch. “Major Vane-Stewart was telling me the other day that this was once the site of the first important cricket ground in London, established by the same Thomas Lord who later built the famous ground that bears his name, a few miles to the north of us in St. John’s Wood. There is a plaque recording this fact in that shed over there. In the middle of the square.”
“Cricket.” Angers spat out the words with disgust. “A stupid game played by idiots. Only the English could invent such a boring name.”
― The French Spy
“Cricket.” Angers spat out the words with disgust. “A stupid game played by idiots. Only the English could invent such a boring name.”
― The French Spy
Lela’s 2025 Year in Books
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