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“In the novel Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford, the slugs which inhabit the narrator’s garden at night are ‘shrivelling over the pebble and dirt like the skin on staling fruit’.11 Here the visual image this summons is unsettling: the slug being likened to a foodstuff implies that it may be devoured, with all the revulsion that would entail, but without stating this explicitly.”
― Dan Coxon, Writing the Uncanny

“The priest was young, I’d watched him kiss the book and thought the kiss a little wet for death.”
― Ella Frears, Goodlord: An Email

“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas”
― Ella Frears, Goodlord: An Email