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It was the smell of things at the bottom, and that was where Fat Charlie seemed to have ended up.
J. T. Edson,
John Thomas Edson (17 February 1928 – 17 July 2014) was an English author of 137 Westerns, escapism adventure, and police-procedural novels.
Louis L’Amour.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print.
GRAHAME COATS,
Saint Andrews.
FAT CHARLIE
in all probability wake up in cell six the following morning to find that he had been transformed into an enormous cockroach.
maleficent universe
Haha Mee too
MAEVE LIVINGSTONE
In the afterlife - cf. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (2021). My review notes:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5828725934
Haha
It was a reassuring voice, the voice of a radio vicar in the process of telling you his thought for the day.
you’ve now transcended the vale of oojamaflip,
it’s like worms and butterflies, love. You know.”
like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest.
Haha
FAT CHARLIE
castles and cockroaches and people named K
Skopsie.
Haha
an Alfred Hitchcock film.
The pigeons came down like the wolf on the fold….
“It’s the beginning of the world,” corrected Spider.
their naked mauve necks and scalps—featherless because that’s so much easier when you’re putting your head into rotting carcases—
Haha
Haha
if you’d left my house when I asked you to, we’d not be in this mess.” “That isn’t very helpful.”
Haha
wondering if it was littering if no one was ever going to see it.
Haha - if a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound?
DAISY,
Fat Charlie.
He realized that his jaw was open. He closed it.
Haha
Haha
ROSIE
Haha
She would see people in pain, see people who looked hungry or miserable, and she wanted to help. Everything seemed very fixable to Rosie. It just needed someone to fix it.
MAEVE LIVINGSTONE
now she saw things she had never seen before: there were shadows that fluttered about him, always keeping their distance:
“Dim sum,” she said. “Sunday lunchtime. We’ll go dutch. You’ll need to be there when they open the doors at eleven-thirty, or we’ll have to queue for ages.”
on the
Haha Mee too
as a small girl she had been unable to envision a God who disliked anyone enough to sentence them to an eternity of torture in Hell,
Haha
Haha
FAT CHARLIE
DAISY
Haha
Spider
A feathered phalanx
Alliteration and simile
“I don’t want him,” she told him. “Why would I want him? I had an obligation to another. Now I shall deliver him, and then my obligation shall be done.”
FAT CHARLIE
