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Death Of Love

“I can’t do this all alone.”

“You don’t have to.” 

“I do.” 

“No, you don’t have to do this alone. I’m here for you, always.” 

“But what if you’re not?” 

“But I am. I’m here right now, and I promise not to leave you.” 

He lay on the floor of the empty room and he held the letter to his chest. It had been four years since they’d seen each other, two since they’d fallen out of contact. But he was…

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All Women Can Dance - the first four chapters

This this first 12,000 words, about four chapters, of my novel All Women Can Dance. I encourage you, please, to leave any feedback (any feedback at all) and especially if you give up on it, the point at which you gave up. You can email…

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I've finished a new novel!

There’s nothing like blowing your own horn, especially as the title of a blog you want people to read, but alas, I’m going to do it.

I’ve literally just typed “The End” in capital letters at the bottom of my newest manuscript. Which explains why I’ve not…

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Dear You: an open letter for suicide prevention day

I wrote this for you. I love you.

Dearest,

Today is Suicide Prevention day, it’s the day where we’ll wear orange and may even write “love” on our arms. It’s the one day of the year where suicide is at the forefront of the minds of the masses. One day, every year. On today, we show our…

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In defence of the dictionary

              The dictionary has been recording British English since Richard Mulcaster (regarded…

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Historical fiction; changing the past to entertain the present http://wp.me/s2p2fB-451

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Thoughts on books: The Girl Who Played With Fire & The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

                            Often a series can go one of two ways, it can continue on the upward…

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Fairy tales; the loved, the lost, and beginnings.

      Fairy Tales are often the first introductions to story telling. They are, for the most part,…

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Sometimes you just need some different words (via word-stuck.tumblr.com)

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“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard”

Arundhati Roy (via 95db)

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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light

Oscar Wilde (via jellytotsandrainbows)

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I’m still writing about you and you haven’t read a word.

Travis Grandt, You Won the Breakup (via theunquotables)

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Twenty-one Reasons Why English Is Hard to Learn

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Violence, Give Me Violence

“Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.”

- Jim Morrison

Violence is part of human nature, from conquering nations in the name of ideas, to the way animals are slaughtered for food, to the instinctual response to a…

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"Flying Houses" surreal photography by Laurent Chehere

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I’m no different or better than any of you. I’ve simply been placed here to remind you that you’re loved