Childhood Love/ James Joyce

Childhood Love/ James Joyce

    Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side. Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door.  The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. […]

Safari/ Ernest Hemingway

Safari/ Ernest Hemingway

        It had started the night before when he had heard the lion roaring somewhere up along the river. It was a deep sound and at the end there were sort of coughing grunts that made him seem just outside the tent, and when Francis Macomber woke in the night to hear […]