the last words

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:39:20 GMT

Posted by: stonepicnicking_okapi

His hands were empty, as they had always been.

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Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:02:25 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

The candle Carl had lit grew cold.

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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:29:17 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

I apologize, I feel terrible, and I will make you a pie.

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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:54:49 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

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Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:14:43 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

But that is a tale for another time.

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Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:40:26 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Lady Gaga was looking nervous, too. It was only understandable, what with Joanne Tarbuck's smell of bohemian scarf-shop.

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Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:39:15 GMT

Posted by: seekingferret

But there was something else there, something that felt equal parts terrifying and healthy. Something that felt a lot like rage.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:21:30 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

It was a face that spoke of long-continued and hardened vice—it was one in which the Past had written indelible characters. The brand of the hangman could not have stamped it more plainly, nor have more unequivocally warned the suspicion of honest or timid men.

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Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:19:40 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

The sense of time having stopped thirty or so years ago is especially evident in the extraordinary 'House of Wax' which occupies the old Anglican church of St Luke built in 1877 for the large number of English visitors and still with memorials on the wall to those who perished while taking the waters.

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Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:26:07 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Asked about his sloppy appearance, Pollard responded simply that he had become engrossed in a 'gorgeous edition of the Arabian Nights' and 'just couldn't find time to undress and go to sleep'.

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Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:10:12 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

In the lives of the good, bad people are the deciding factor. That's just how it goes. In the lives of the bad, the good ones disappear. They don't even notice them.

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Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:01:24 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Using this process, called photosynthesis, plants store the energy from sunlight in the form of sugar (high in calories, as you know), and they can then use this sugar energy to make everything else they need: like protein, and fibre, and flowers, and corn on the cob, and bark, and leaves, and amazing traps that eat flies, and cures for cancer, and tomatoes, and wispy dandelions, and conkers, and chillies, and all the other amazing things that the plant world has going on.

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Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:07:55 GMT

Posted by: spiralicious

Time lingers for no kid, but memories of his misbehaviors would remain for all time.

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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:40:24 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

I know that these tiny, almost invisible, hair-thin worms - 'the most numerous animals on earth' - are everywhere, hundreds in every handful of leaf mould, billions beneath the soil, recycling debris, remaking the world.

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Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:24:39 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

And then, as suddenly as he'd appeared, the masked botanist was gone, leaving the townspeople with only an enriched knowledge of local flora and fungi to remember him by.

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Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:28:12 GMT

Posted by: imhilien

Maybe whoever returned the hope chest had left us a note after all.

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Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:54:49 GMT

Posted by: stonepicnicking_okapi

The house sitter had been one of Peter Diamond’s better suggestions.

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Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:31:01 GMT

Posted by: tally

You'll just have to imagine you're Siri Keeton.

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Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:46:27 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

this is what will be left behind: a forgotten light bulb burning itself out in the cupboard under the stairs; the odd coin or hairgrip wedged between floorboards; and sand.

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Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:43:50 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Mummy was extremely house-proud, and she did all the housework in the nude. It was a tad disconcerting for our maids and au pair girls, but she liked to get it done, then have a bath.

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Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:12:45 GMT

Posted by: jazzfish

... they dwell now beyond the circles of the world, and do not return.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:16:45 GMT

Posted by: northlands

She looked for her cigarettes and went about observing, in ecstasy, the infinite, many-colored crystals accumulating in the air.

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Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:54:08 GMT

Posted by: spiralsheep

Every institution we have explored, from a cathedral to a brewery, symbolises mankind's aspirations and strivings for a better and fuller life.

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Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:43:36 GMT

Posted by: jazzfish

"Dick Laurant is dead."

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Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:31:13 GMT

Posted by: stonepicnicking_okapi

They heard one of the party carelessly singing a Christmas carol for glory and joy, and the laughter of the children coming home.

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