Unveiling a mysterious boy’s chilling past, the Tilneys’ Christmas takes a haunting turn. As secrets unravel, a tragic tale connects them to a ghostly presence.
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“You can have this memory, if you want, completely uncorrupted.” On the balcony, two friends talk away the world.
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“A hush would fall like a curtain mid-act before Annie walked out.” Our latest Podcast is “Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre” by Elinora Westfall.
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we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
Space does not exist.
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On sunny afternoons, I go out to the street to eat tar.
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We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives.
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His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn.
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Sharon was usually waiting for me outside her front door. She said the sound of the doorbell woke her dad up. It was a comfort that she was as I ...
What we can sense when it is quiet.
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Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
Not all that is hidden is lost
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Garrison and I sit in our chairs and watch the pale blue dot spin on the monitor. The pale blue dot spins on the monitor thirty ...
When they came for him, I did not ask questions.
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You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
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a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow ...
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There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and ...
On finding oneself
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JJ Bola’s latest novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing, reviewed.
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