Literature

PART THREE Two days after the fire the Overlord’s agent came to the House, and another man with him. She already knew she did not like the agent, Deager, and…

Wordlessly, she pulled out her jar. It was the calming honey, and she saw it, as she tugged the stopper out, as the tiny frail thing it was, absurdly so,…

“I remember seeing you once when you were a boy,” she replied, not adding that she was trying to find that boy in his face now, and failing. “You trotted…

“Welcome,” she said again, still feeling dizzy and confused, but realising she meant it. He was welcome. “May I offer you – ” She stopped. She had no idea what…

PART TWOThe day the Circle came to her seemed a century ago now, although it was only a year. Once Nora and Spring had joined Kard’s small flock of four…

“I was prepared for this or something like this; I thought I was prepared. But I believed that we would reconnect in the land – I would not have come…

Introduction In 2000 the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These eight goals focused on international development were accepted by 193 member states of the United Nations as…

She didn’t know he could move silently. It wasn’t till he was standing in front of the fireplace that she noticed him out of the corner of her eye, and…

She walked slowly back toward the deep end, murmuring to the earth and the earthlines, tossing sweet mysterious drops into the shadows of the ravine. The earth under her feet…

To Molly, Gard, Chiron and GueneverePART ONE Because she was Chalice she stood at the front door with the Grand Seneschal, the Overlord’s agent and the Prelate, all of whom…

I wrote all that five years ago. (So, yeah. I’ve got all old and gross and legal-adult and everything. Deal with it.)It’s taken that long to get it through the…

Research question and aims: The intention of this research is to analyze and identify the motives which encouraged both Jordan and Israel to conclude a peace treaty in 1994 and…

The rest of the story everybody knows. The whole world knows. They ran that first TV news shot with a thirty-second delay because they weren’t sure they weren’t going to…

When I came to, my head still hurt, but not quite as much, and I had Lois’ head jammed under my chin, humming. It wasn’t a very good hum, it…

Lois and I were sitting facing each other in one of the little sandpits in our meadow. I’d been trying to teach her to count. What we were really good…

Westcamp was in a bit more of a mess than the permanent camps usually are. And I actually helped with some of the clean- and patch-up. It was weirdly exhilarating….

I’m still doing a lousy job of giving you any sense of time passing. Well, time passed, and all of us pre-adult things kept getting bigger, me, Martha, Eleanor ….

The first two years of Lois’ life are both really blurry and really clear in my memory. There are all kinds of little sharp clear pieces in it, mostly about…

I named her Lois. She looked like a Lois. I know how that sounds: It sounds like the ugliest woman I ever met must have been named Lois. But that…

I was so tired I fell asleep leaning against a tree with the dragonlet belly up in one sleeve and a potful of broth propped between my legs. A weird…