“non deisistas non exieris,”
― A Mark of Imperfection
― A Mark of Imperfection
“surreptitiously shunting the snap-on cover of a ballpoint pen around the edge of a sheet of paper like a toy train set,”
― Lines of Inquiry
― Lines of Inquiry
“Foxtrot, Foxtrot, Sierra.”
― Lines of Inquiry
― Lines of Inquiry
“Mining communities stripped of their livelihood, chewed up by politicians and spat out to survive, fragmented and directionless. With no work for the younger generation, as one century died and another was born, the older people who’d been the community’s heart were abandoned with little or no support.”
― A Mark of Imperfection
― A Mark of Imperfection
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