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Bones are Forever

Midnight: strange meeting, teachers dead. The juror, the secret keeper sworn to silence Iron council “tell me no lies”. Scared to death- a wanted man, what I was the wrong man; a suitable boy. Chasing faces before I die, Looking for JJ the love of my life the fool’s girl, stargirl. No time for goodbyes, […]

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Tom’s Midnight Garden; The Secret Garden, Birds, Beasts (and Relatives), Born Free, The Forgotten Garden, Garden of Beasts, Garden of Shadows, The Time Garden, For All Time, Out Of Time, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Other Side Of Midnight, Goodnight Mr Tom, Mr Midnight,

From rapture to reality

Just listen; birdsong. A gathering light, half of a yellow sun; a thousand splendid suns. Promise me the singing; the harsh cry of the heron Before the dark; after the dawn; one day; elsewhere. Inkheart. Just one look; love walked in. The fault in our stars sing you home before I go to sleep. Handle […]

The Difference between Nightmares and Reality

Before I wake, Will Grayson… Will Grayson! The Night Circus, candyfloss, Goodnight, my angel. My dear, I wanted to tell you The name of the wind: Silence. I remember passion, rapture… Torment. Still, she haunts me. Just listen, remember me? What if the final days… When she danced across the nightingale floor Looking for Alaska, […]

A Murder Is Announced

Farewell, my lovely – Pearls are a nuisance of human bondage. Beloved, never let me go walking on broken glass; to the lighthouse. Love – In the time of Cholera, kiss Kiss the beautiful, and the damned kiss the dust. Take a girl like you, farewell (My lovely, we are still married) to the lighthouse, […]

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