Archive: Story Experiences

"His fate was mingled with the frenzies of Empire and the doom of peoples. And it was not in peace and rest, but ruin and horror, that he reached his end."

"O my dear--such a charming day! And then last night--well, you shall have it all in order--as well as I can recollect"

There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die.

"At the time not a soul in sleeping Halcomb heard them--four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy recreating them over and again--those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers."

a constant stream of world and character riddles: an island with conflicting histories; a cold-blooded schoolmistress warmed by a passionate heart; a cautious captain who's up for anything (Fletcher 93)

On the Origin of Species presents a constant stream of world and character riddles: an island with conflicting histories; a cold-blooded schoolmistress warmed by a passionate heart; a cautious captain who's up for anything (Fletcher 93). "How strange is it that a bird, under the form of woodpecker, should have been created to prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which never or rarely swim, should have been created with webbed feet." "When on board H.M.S. "Beagle," as a naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts [that] seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die--though I'd had reason enough for the last few months--but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."