
"She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window."
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"She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window."
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"A young man with unruly black hair stood upon the summit of Calton Hill in the wee hours of a Thursday in early February."
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I bought this book years ago at the Edinburgh airport. It's past time to get it off the TBR shelf!

"Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human."
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I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral.
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Travel writing for travel times - Currently in Vienna

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living
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"Xcor saw his father killed when he was but five years past his transition. "

He really believed it was a madcap game. A joke. A dare, played out between old friends.
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My wig slumps on my desk where I have tossed it like flattened roadkill.
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