I hope that you will forgive me for saying so, the minarch says, but this is all a bit...underwhelming. - The Fourth Consort
He was in my light. - The Book of Swords "The Best Man Wins" by K.J. Parker
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I hope that you will forgive me for saying so, the minarch says, but this is all a bit...underwhelming. - The Fourth Consort
He was in my light. - The Book of Swords "The Best Man Wins" by K.J. Parker
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"She tripped and fell; her swollen belly hit the ground."
- The Cave
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Also, I apparently read this a few years ago, and only realised this due to looking it up on litsy to mark it as currently reading when I started it.
The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
"The snows have come."
Luck of the Draw by Frank Murphy
"I was officially and honorably separated from active duty with the United States Army Air Forces at Greensboro, North Carolina, on January 17, 1946.
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"She kills her lover on the altar of a foreign goddess."
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"When I was six, my father took me to Grand Central Terminal in New York to see the imposing bronze statue of my great-great-great-grandfather 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt."
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“I didn‘t scream when Daddy fell from the ladder.”
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This week it‘s 2 shorts by Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and The Pendulum), I just need a little break from my current read: Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, so this was a nice switch before I get back to it.
He was lying on a varnished wooden board, the top of a boxed- in radiator.
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It all started when Dr Brian Robertson, retired GP, enthusiastic amateur ecologist and self-confessed cryptid aficionado, stumbled over a dead sheep a few kilometres west of the town of Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire.
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