‘You either live a long time or you live a short time, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I don’t feel my age, I don’t worry about it. That’s probably why I got here. I have no idea why I’ve lived so long. I can’t remember any special secrets. When I was young, I was quite active, I walked a lot,’ the centenarian once said.
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
Unable to move, his heart stood still as the howling alternated between the sounds of an abandoned woman weeping and then ascending into a near-deafening shrieking as a fit of uncontrollable anger was released.
But they are no match for a prowling marauder for whom death is no more to be feared than is birth. The mercenary turned arms dealer has a single lead and an insatiable thirst for a messy and vengeful justice.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
Back in 1800, Thomas Cochrane, the guy who inspired Jack Aubrey from Master and Commander, got his first command: a little sloop called the Speedy. It had 14 four-pounder guns and a crew of about 80 men. Mostly, Cochrane did convoy duty, but he also got a few […]
If you have already travelled or plan to set off on an unforgettable Trans-Siberian journey, or at least have an understanding of what Siberia and wild Russian taiga are like, you can assume the severe conditions the Trans-Siberian railway construction was held in.
Wandering through art galleries and museums, bookshops, parks and gardens, why not pause to consider who it was or what it was that inspired the creation of each work of art.
The mysterious Tiffany is the stunningly beautiful and effervescent heiress of a Russian oligarch’s Spanish bordello named Sex Fest at Tiffany’s. The heart-warming novel is the sequel to The Dovetails Hotel by Michael Walsh. The ultimate light-hearted holiday romance unfolds when Gareth, Leonora and Felicity celebrate their ménage […]
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a classic bildungsroman novel that follows the life and adventures of its supposed protagonist, David Copperfield, from his childhood to adulthood, as he navigates the trials and tribulations of the highs and lows of Victorian society. The novel begins with David’s birth […]
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