Mary, Queen of Scots: "You are hard, madame."
Elizabeth I: "It is the business of living that has made me so."

-- Elizabeth I, Nigel Williams

If this were a fairy tale, it would now be time for Captain Durham to play hero. He does not seem to lack the necessary credentials. It is not that he isn't handsome, or tall or strong, or that he doesn't want to help her, or that he doesn't love her (oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is ( Read more... )

"I carried her promises up the stairs.
They were as fragile as lightbulbs."

from The Wounded Chandelier, by Jeffrey McDaniel

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