"Wooing is out of fashion,
like silence,
or manna,
no fervour any more, no
Tir na Nog."
- In Memoriam
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"Wooing is out of fashion,
like silence,
or manna,
no fervour any more, no
Tir na Nog."
- In Memoriam
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
“There were five of us—Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger.”
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He watched the attendants hoist the body onto the metal mesh and it landed with what would have been a painful thump had the bastard been alive, but, unfortunately, he wasn't
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"Of course the first thing I looked for was the fire watch stone. And of course it wasn't there yet."
When @CSeydel mentioned To Say Nothing of the Dog a few days ago, it inspired me to look back at the Oxford time travel series, and I found this book of short stories as part of the series I hadn't read yet.
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“Once the queen‘s head is severed, he walks away.”
#firstLineFridays. @ShyBookOwl
"Later, not a single person will recall seeing the lady board the flight at Hobart Airport.
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“Jeanie Ellis had never killed a man before, but tonight might be the night.”
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