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Of six small sentences

A photographer in the UK writes steamy fiction. Peter Davidson’s imaginative writing flashes with wit and humour. He sent a link to a website titled Six Sentences: What can you say in six sentences. “Need a break from your bigger writing projects?” asks Robert McEvily, the creator and editor of 6S. “Need to fine-tune a [...]

Alaskan anniversary

Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of a cruise my mother insisted that we all take. We had a luxurious suite with a wide balcony. Majestic mountains and untouched land seemed to move past slowly, rather than feeling the cruise ship. I would look out the sliding glass doors at 3 a.m. in awe at the [...]

Reality

“The novel-writer in constructing his dialogue must so steer between absolute accuracy of language — which would give to his conversation an air of pedantry, and the slovenly inaccuracy of ordinary talkers, which if closely followed would offend by an appearance of grimace — as to produce upon the ear of his readers a sense [...]