The mighty north winds had been tossing us around in a terrible storm for three days and had thrown us on death‘s doorstep in the raging chaos of our blasted sails, when they suddenly stopped.
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The mighty north winds had been tossing us around in a terrible storm for three days and had thrown us on death‘s doorstep in the raging chaos of our blasted sails, when they suddenly stopped.
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@ShyBookOwl
The heat rippling over the surface of Charity Marlow‘s blacktop driveway was one hundred twelve degrees.
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Thomas Albert Wrenfether was a man unusually exposed to fortune.
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Seventeen miles south of Kasaoka, falling right on the border between Okayama, Hiroshima and Kagawa Prefectures, in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, there‘s a tiny island.
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"Why tariffs are not an issue:
'Tariff Reform, Free Trade or No Trade? The Fiscal Fraud Exposed' was the front-page headline of the Socialist Standard in April 1910."
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Articles include a critique (and rejection) of the UK Supreme Court's ruling on a legal definition of sex and gender ✊?️⚧️
DT and tariffs
A critique (and rejection) of the tactics of Just Stop Oil
DT Vs Greenland
The monetisation of universities
"Will we get into trouble?"
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“No one was dead, at least not to begin with”
I will probably DNF this. I‘m 50 pages in, and I don‘t care. All the characters except the detective are mean, and the detective needs a backbone. 😬
The mayor told us not to wear clothes anymore.
House Gone Quiet is a short story collection. I bought it on Indie Bookstore Day and am really enjoying it. I‘m reading the story titled Decency Rule today. #FirstLineFridays
IF YOU‘D TOLD ME AT any point in the past seven years that I‘d wind up back in Eureka Springs, I‘d have laughed in your face. There are far too many ghosts in that town—not just the “real” ones tourists pay to hear about, but personal ones too.
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