A Day with Asha Lemmie
” I left Paris to find you. I became a writer because of you. Every journey I have started on was to reach you.”
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literary fiction
“The Choice” by Penny Hancock
“The Choice” by Penny Hancock “It wasn’t until many years later that I found the canister containing the undeveloped film from that day.’ Tobias’s voice is quieter now and hoarse from his shouting. ‘I had no idea what it contained. I took it to be developed. It was only then that I saw the evidence
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Psychologiacl Novel
“Postcards to Herself” by Laura Stamps
“Sometimes a dog is better than a husband.” “Postcards to Herself” by Laura Stamps reminds me of Emily Dickinson’s “Envelope Poems,” where she used the same prose poetry style in her letters. In “Postcards to Herself,” Laura Stamps experiments with prose and poetry in an innovative narrative style that does not follow a traditional narrative
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Pet Literature
“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck
“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck “A longing caressed him, and it was so sharp that he wanted to cry to get it out of his breast. He lay down in the green grass near the round tub at the brush line. He covered his eyes with his crossed arms and lay there a long
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Classic Novels
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
In this haunting retelling of a Grimm’s fairy tale set in 1980s Britain, a scarred young woman navigates motherhood, identity, and her troubled past. Barbara Comyns weaves a mesmerising tale that blurs the lines between the ordinary and the uncanny, creating a modern fable that’s both beautiful and brutal.
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fictionLike Glass by Sylvia Wilde
Like Glass by Sylvia Wilde When repressed memories float above the level of consciousness and disturb a living soul with haunting nightmares, literature bursts forth into several individual theories culminating in a single solid pursuit – the significance of existence. Sylvia Wilde\’s \”Like Glass\” mirrors those existential crises that keep Trey tethered in the same
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