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Monthly Archives: December 2015
BIG NEWS! FIZA PATHAN, One of my clients, took awards at the London Book Festival and …
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Gigging a Gig! Journalists, for what it’s worth
(As you know if you’ve been hanging around here for a bit, there is almost no kind of writing or editing I haven’t done over the years, with the exception of erotica and other icky or brutalizing stuff. So … Continue reading
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#shortstory Zoya’s Christmas Eve-a short story from my book S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories
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Zoya’s Christmas Eve-a short story from my book S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories.
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#shortstory Zoya’s Christmas Eve-from my book S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories
Originally posted on insaneowl:
Zoya was a girl living a normal Christian life with her family in a small apartment overlooking the sea. Zoya was a happy child and was thoroughly spoilt by her parents, uncles and aunts because she…
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“A Child Was Born in a Cave to Save the World”
Joseph Brodsky was an emigre poet from the Soviet Union who lived in New York City, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. He was an amazingly gifted, modest man. He wrote in English after emigrating as an … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Joseph Brodsky, Literature, Margaret Langstaff, Poetry
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