The man appeared to be independent of oxygen.
Having my hair cut, the young barber, Tyler, says he is also a trained roofer and sometimes when it’s sunny outside longs to be fixing up slates again. Instead he is stuck inside working on the tops and sides of heads.
She thought she was feeding the hedgehogs but she was feeding the rats.
Full of holes
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" Marie Oliver
…her grandmother Esther, whom she describes as keeping “a blade on her tongue, sharpened and meant to draw blood".
When I die, I am simply going nowhere.
“More breaks than Soft Joe.” Liverpudlian saying
In 1726, a woman from Godalming in Surrey named Mary Toft claimed that she had given birth to rabbits.
News spread fast through pam-phlets, newspaper reports and the coffee houses. Was the story true or not?
Physicians, including the king's doctor, examined her and, far from dismissing her claim immediately, came to different conclusions. The emerging scientific method did not result in a definitive answer. Only when Toft was threatened with a "very painful experiment", after a long period of being observed, did she admit the hoax.
After a certain age the body is working overtime on no extra pay.
Weightless episodes hang like stalactites in the caves of your memory.
She looked like she was standing over a drain.
The cloud on the horizon was no bigger than a man’s hand.
‘Dodging’, ‘burning’, ‘bleaching’ and ‘spotting’, are all terms for enhancing hand printed photographs in a ‘wet’ darkroom.
Today is more about being than doing.
