Image from Wikimedia Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of […]
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In loving appreciation of the genius of Mrs. Liz Flatt, author, mother, and storyteller supreme. TIME AND PLACE 2025. Crossland University, Grahamstead, Surrey, England, and vicinity. Center stage: A windowless rehearsal room on the first floor of a Crossland University lecture hall, outside of which is a small garden. The walls of the rehearsal room
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Photo by CARLOSCRUZ ARTEGRAFIA from Pexels Once every few years, even now … I find it impossible to bear. – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible TIME AND PLACE Present time. In a courtroom. CHARACTERS ARTHUR, male, 62, wearing a blue quilted jacket with zipper pockets. EMILY, female, 18, dressed in jeans, a white shirt, and
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Photo by hello aesthe from Pexels TIME AND PLACE Inside each child’s imagination. The North Sea; Scotland; and beyond. CHARACTERS and SPECIAL PROPS Storyteller(s), female. Ginger, a young girl, pre-11 (non-speaking part). Actors in costume as an owl, a cat, a spoon, carrots and pomegranates (non-speaking parts). A teddy bear; two whales; Bong-Trees; and a
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Photo by Josh Hild from Pexels (Paying homage to the poet Linda Gregg) Let the mare in the fieldin the summer morning mistmake you whinny. Make you cometo the fence and whinny. Let birds. – Linda Gregg, Let Birds, 1994 The privacy of them had a river in it.Had our universe in it. And the
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