Love Stories: Tag – Love
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Short Stories
Triptych part 1 of 3
Everyone told me it would be fine. My hometown’s a decent size, and although you often bump into neighbours in the street, into people you knew from sixth form, I didn’t think it likely we’d meet. I didn’t think he’d still be around, figured he might have moved to London like he always said he would. I imagined he’d have stopped shopping in the stores we used to go to. I shouldn’t have assumed everything would change after I left.
Short Stories
Tail Feathers
At first light of dawn, just as the sky is tinged with pink across the mountain tops and the dew glistens in the first rays, he is up and ready, alert and on the move. Ready to take on every comer in defence of his one – or two or three – true loves.
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Marmite, Diamantés and Fuzzy Carpets
Clare had asked if she wanted them to stay the night; rent a room at the hotel across town. Isabelle had laughed as she unpacked pots and pans, picking up the sandwich toaster in the shape of a cow that friends from home gave as a leaving present, bending over to put it in a kitchen cupboard.
Short Stories
A Dip in the Gene Pool
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wander why exactly they continue in the great dispiriting round – meet someone, date for a while, break up. What use are men after all? Perhaps, when the great biological foot stands ready to stomp, there is one use you can still put them to . . .
Short Stories
A Dip in the Gene Pool
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wander why exactly they continue in the great dispiriting round – meet someone, date for a while, break up. What use are men after all? Perhaps, when the great biological foot stands ready to stomp, there is one use you can still put them to . . .
Love Classics
Pride and Prejudice Chapter 2
Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with:
“I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.”
“We are not in a way to know what Mr. Bingley likes,” said her mother resentfully, “since we are not to visit.”
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 3
Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
Short Stories
The Awakening
While on holiday in Tenerife without her husband, Jean acquires much more than a suntan. She meets José, an artist who lives on the island and suddenly a whole new life is opened up to her. Then he asks her to stay, and she realises that it’s the most important decision of her life.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 4
When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him.
“He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!”
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.
Book Excerpts
Blood Diamond Chapter 1
It was dark on the night they came to kill Daniel Feelding. There were no stars and only a shiver of silver played on the black sea. The slap of the waves against the bow of the large East Indiaman, the sigh of the oak beams rolling through the wide ocean, the creak of the foremast and the dull clatter of the reefed topsails and main against the salt-stained wooden cross-trees were the only sounds on that long dogwatch, but still Daniel did not hear them coming.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 6
The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form. Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest.
Short Stories
The Romance of Trees
A romantic fairy-tale about the love between a young prince and princess, turned into trees by an evil witch. Finding ways to whisper messages in the wind and knotting their roots together like lover’s holding hands, the trees romance lasts for thousands of years until a violent storm threatens their special bond.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 2
Daniel Feelding was a young man from a good family. His back was straight, his limbs were strong and he looked a man in the eye and shook his hand firm. He was not the sort you would expect to find working a passage as an able seaman on a 740-ton Indiaman returning from Madras to England, through the wild African seas off that barbarous green coast, laden with tea for the drawing rooms of London.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 7
Mr. Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 3
How did he survive those black hours? Daniel had no idea. The water was warmer than he first thought but still the sea winds chilled his back and made him shiver, draped across the barrel. At various times he thought he sensed great things moving nearby and under him, but he tried to put them out of his thoughts
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No Greater Love
For as long as Sarah could remember, the photograph of a young soldier had graced the dresser in Aunt Jane’s home. The photo had faded over the years, yet the young man’s handsome features were still very clear.
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Pride and Prejudice Chapter 8
At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley’s, she could not make a very favourable answer.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 4
By the time Daniel fetched up on the white sand of the shore he was buffeted, cut and bleeding from being scraped against rock and sea-floor. His clothes were lacerated, there was a long, open gash in his left thigh, but he hugged that sand in the falling blackness with the fervour of a man reborn.
Short Stories
The Awakening
While on holiday in Tenerife without her husband, Jean acquires much more than a suntan. She meets José, an artist who lives on the island and suddenly a whole new life is opened up to her. Then he asks her to stay, and she realises that it’s the most important decision of her life.