Bleakness


Dusk
Juice
One Life: My Mother's Story
Small Things Like These
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
The Jungle
Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley, #1)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The First Stone
How It Went Down
This Is Where It Ends
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
The Princess' Blankets
Interim
This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm
John Steinbeck
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Evan Meekins
the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are. ...more
Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

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