Belle Starr, Outlaw Queen of the American Wild West
A photograph of a young Belle Starr
Belle Starr was an infamous fugitive in the American “Wild West” of the late 1800’s. She was connected with such famous outlaws as Jesse and Frank James, and was arrested several times herself. She’s been credited with a long list of crimes, but was she truly the Bandit Queen as the newspapers made her out to be? Or were the many criminal men in her life the…
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Favorite films watched in April 2024:
Elvira Madigan (1967), dir. Bo Widerberg
The Horse Thief (1986), dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
The Nun's Story (1959), dir. Fred Zinnemann
The Naked City (1948), dir. Jules Dassin
Anna (2009), dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson
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Top Final Sentences of 2022
I was everything I needed.
Xoài Phạm, from “The Greatest Pleasure”
He helped me find what I truly craved and identify what had been there all along: an unwavering sense of self.
Jennifer Chowdhury, from “In Pursuit of Brown-on-Brown Love”
Such an old, old memory, why should it make me cry?
Lloyd Schwartz, from “The Two Horses (A Memory)”
“I love you,” he whispered again, against the top of her head.
Mary Balogh, from Thief of Dreams
And he paused, in the space between inhalation and exhalation, and invited magic in.
Freya Marske, from A Marvellous Light
“Nothing I didn’t already know,
deep down.”
Dante Medema, from The Truth Project
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Toni Morrison, from Sula
For just a little while more, I think, let me hide here.
Jonathan Robbins Leon, from “The Same Kind of Monster”
In search of, an approximation:
desire of, love of.
Iliana Rocha, from “Elegy Falling Forward & Down“
I still crave the comfort of a hand in mine, the warmth of being claimed in the daylight.
Laura Bogart, from “A New Kind of Heroine”
And it is you, it is you
she is holding like an open book, well-loved, in her hands.
Eve Alexandra, from “Heroine”
We survived to whisper our names to each other even if we could not yet confess them to anyone else.
Anna-Marie McLemore, from “Roja”
And this is the story of how I am caught.
Margaret Owen, from Little Thieves
I’m trying to hold on to this rope, and I’m trying to let go.
Melissa Faliveno, from “Tied, Tethered, Unfettered, Free”
Imagine you don’t fit anywhere, not even in your own head.
Bassey Ikpi, from “What It Feels Like”
I look to the sky and feel her ghost.
Colton Haynes, from Miss Memory Lane
It would be nice if we could talk about how we went online, driven by some sort of longing, and why we stayed there, pushing that want outward, over and over, until it couldn’t be ignored.
Kaitlyn Tiffany, from Everything I Need I Get from You
Care tasks exist for one reason only… to make your body and space functional enough for you to easily experience the joy this world has to offer.
K.C. Davis, from How to Keep House While Drowning
I had become one of the people on the street who knew where he was going.
Andrew Rannells, from Too Much Is Not Enough
Until everything was sea and sky, and the falling was flying, and he realised he was laughing too.
Alexis Hall, from A Lady for a Duke
Under the wrack and wreck of what had come before, the sky was new, and I reached for it with a yearning eager hand.
Nghi Vo, from The Chosen and the Beautiful
My beating heart is still yours, the letter said, and I’ll be waiting for you.
Dana Schwartz, from Anatomy
It won’t last for long, but it’s beautiful for now.
Linda Oatman High, from December
She holds my hand as I leave them all behind.
Erica Waters, from “Stay”
And then I fall back into my sheets, still warm and crumpled, and close my eyes.
Alice Oseman, from “Hands Against Our Hearts”
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