A thrilling horror debut
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Second Hand RoseD E FoxBlossom Spring Publishing (2023)ISBN: 978-1739351441Reviewed by Leslie Anne Smith for Reader Views (03/2024)
“Second Hand Rose” is the debut work of D E Fox, a horror novella starring Abigail Hirst, a reporter who has returned to her hometown of Friendship so she can take over her late grandmother’s antique shop called Second Hand Rose. As Abigail settles into her new life…
These were taken in late July, on a warm day where my mom and I went to walk around the Montreal Botanical Garden. (Photos by my mom, edits by me)
Outfit rundown:
The Swing by Fragonard Skirt: Baroquepetrock (an EGL Livejournal user who did handmade commissions back in 2012)
Blouse: second-hand Olive des Olive
Hat: vintage
Cat bag: second-hand Achachumu Muchacha
Belt: Axes Femme
Shoes: second-hand Queen Bee
Parasol: old Alice and the Pirates
Brooches: vintage and handmade
Rings: vintage and second-hand Michal Negrin
I rewatched "The Impossible Planet" two-parter and I'm dying over the mortgage scene, when she's talking about how they could both share he immediately swallows and starts subtly nodding a couple of times like his own body betrays him before he starts more aggressively nodding and says "anyway" 😭😭😭😭and even then he doesn't start rambling the way you'd expect him to with that sort of conversation he just lets it settle
I've also never taken that scene to be a rejection, he's always tried to play things off just like he did when he first asked Rose if she wanted to travel in the TARDIS and most obviously when he asks if she wants to spend her life with him
On a similar note it's fascinating to me that Rose is the one that keeps looking away and being awkward while he's entranced looking at her so intensely...
i don’t think rose sees roy as a father (more like an older brother) but i know with my whole heart she WOULD call him dad in front of slade just to piss him off. and it always works