Hair as orange as toasting fire. Turquoise eyes. Smile faded and gone. You tried to pencil it in once. It has gone again, since.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Jim Kay’s Illustrated Edition
I worried I'd ruin the most popular children’s book in historyJim Kay I'm not going to pretend that I spend all my free time bettering myself with new literature - books I can learn from and develop my writing. More often than not, I come home from work and, if I'm not on Netflix, I'm…
The Dandelion Babies
There is someone screaming in the toilet cubicle next to mine. Me: Hello? [The scream sounds again. Raw. Agonised. A scream of a woman in labour.] Me: Do you need help? I get no answer so I pull up my jeans, flush the toilet and exit my own cubicle. [Screaming continues.] Glancing into the cubicle…
Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook
The Keanes' German shepherd, who would often bark at the southwest corner of the dining room when nothing was there.— Leanne Shapton Everything I wanted from a book. Guestbook isn't so much short and sweet as short and fucking creepy. It's a series of subtle ghost stories. There isn't anyone in a white sheet jumping…
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