An Affair of State
Guy De Maupassant
Paris had just heard of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed.
All France was panting from a madness that lasted until the time of
the commonwealth. Everybody was playing at soldier from one end of
the country to the other. (Read More)
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years
around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant
speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that
I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights
when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve
nights when I was six. (Read More)