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The Second Sorrow
The first song I ever learned to play and sing properly; after three sessions with my teacher and over a week of determined seclusion in my room: was The Man With A Child In His Eyes by Kate Bush. I practised it every evening, over and over again for hours, until I got it right.
Playing For Keeps
Lena was raised on violin lessons and minimal parental supervision. “And by ‘minimal,’” she declared to her private tutor, Henri, “I mean none. Zip. Nada. I’ve spent more time with you and my violin instructors than I have with them.”
How Morse McClary Found Love and Forgave America
He owed this to two women: his beloved wife Zelda and a hometown agoraphobic girl.
The Authoritarians
“I live in America now. Of that you’ll hear more. I grew up in a place without democracy.”
Debris
He huddled in an alcove by the airlock,
amid the sacks of rubbish, waiting to be burned,