Chapter 44 ‘She is gone,’ said Sabbah. He rubbed his tears away and bent forward to kiss the dead woman on her bloodless lips. Doquz touched his arm and turned away, moved by his grief but feeling none of her own. She had seen too many of her friends die to mourn a mother she …
Tag: family relationships
The Tiger and the Cauldron(41)
Chapter 41 Sabbah slammed the door shut and turned the key savagely in the lock. He inspected his thumb on which the blood had begun to congeal. ‘You heard?’ he demanded of Sayyid and Mujir, neither of whom had moved from his position as guard. ‘We heard.’ ‘You will forget!’ Sabbah growled. ‘Swear it.’ ‘I …
Strike Five
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (a JK Rowling pen name) 'She stopped moving before they had finished with her. She'd have screamed, of course, she couldn't have failed to scream, but there was no soundtrack.' The mystery at the centre of Troubled Blood, the latest novel by the creator of Harry Potter, is a forty-year-old …
Cut Off
Unchosen Love by Ursula K LeGuin This, the third story in the collection The Birthday of the World, is set on a planet called O, where ideas of sex and family are even more bizarre than on Gethen or Seggri. [See my two previous posts, here and here.] 'When I explained our concept of incest …
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