I hope we find a way to thrive next year. Live, not just survive. Love ourselves again. Find meaning. Find love. Find peace. Decide we’re worth it.
I hope for more.
Category: feel: seasonal
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
- Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America.
- Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America.
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
- Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America.
- Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America.
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December 24
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall…”
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers.
“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a…”
“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief.
- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief.
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The Shortest Day. Words by Susan Cooper, illustrations by Carson Ellis.
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“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an…”
“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
- E.M. Forster, Howards End.
- E.M. Forster, Howards End.
It’s the season, etc.
Here, I have a few links for gothic, eerie, spooky and deadly short stories in my bookmarks, so… putting them here to celebrate Halloween/Samhain, MWAH.
Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly, Joyce Carol Oates
The Lottery and A Lovely House Shirley Jackson
The Old Nurse’s Story, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Resident, and The Husband’s Stitch, by Carmen Maria Machado
The Lady of the House of Love, by Angela Carter
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Your Body, An Altar, by D. E. Chaudron
The Tower, Marghanita Laski
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Doll, Daphne du Maurier
The Hanging Stranger, Philip K. Dick
The Phantom Coach, Amelia B. Edwards
A Tress of Hair and The Horla, Guy de Maupassant (trans. by ??)
Irina, Susan Millar DuMars
Clip 4, Mark Z. Danielewski