The Pen Wrangler

[Spoilers for Catcher in the Rye, Life of Pi  and Atonement . Potential spoilers for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Curious Incide...

It was inevitable, I know. She was old and had been ill, but it was now, and that was unexpected. I suppose it normally is. Ursula Le Gu...

I've come across some work on free indirect speech/style recently, and have come up with  questions: If our character's speech and ...

I've started carrying around a little notebook in which to gather thoughts, ideas and little snippets of overheard conversation. I...

Our growing moan a lofty growl, that would become a clashing howl enforcing them to soon renounce, as they came forth and we did pounce, ...

The Cat of St. Ives (Part III) Goodly men laid in the ground in numbers that would all astound. Others fled, to better fare a...

The Cat of St. Ives (Part II) I never was a cat of home, and born the streets I was to roam from Tom unknown, and mother cold I l...