Half an hour’s indulgence in these considerations works you up into a state of savage fury against everybody and everything, especially yourself, whom anatomical reasons alone prevent your kicking.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Being in the Blues
Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings!… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Being in Love
Idling always has been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter—it is a gift. Few possess it. There are plenty of lazy people and plenty of slow-coaches, but a genuine idler is a rarity.… Read More Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow: On Being Idle
You shouldn’t go to bed angry with someone you love, and you certainly shouldn’t tell them you’ll never speak to them again. Especially when they are so desperately in love with you that they’d come back from anywhere, even the dead, to say they love you one more time.… Read More Grim Tales-From the Dead
The woman you love is set to marry another man, one she doesn’t love. You can’t sleep, how could you? And where is that ghostly music coming from?… Read More Grim Tales-Mass for the Dead
Those sure are spooky statues up at the church. And it sure is strange that the housekeeper quit after telling how those statues come alive and come back to wreak havoc in the house you just rented. But don’t worry. I’m sure everything will be fine.… Read More Grim Tales-Man-sized in Marble
Nothing good comes from exploring an empty house, and it’s even worse when you find your lover’s still body, throat cut. Or did you? Or will you in the days to come?… Read More Grim Tales-The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched
Would it matter if your lady love only met you by the tombstones? And only when the moon was right? And would it matter at all if she had already been dead for a hundred years?… Read More Grim Tales-Uncle Abraham’s Romance
A little fish pleads with a fisherman for his life, and the fisherman’s reaction is of course, handled quite differently in Aesop and Ambrose’s telling of it.… Read More Aesop vs Ambrose: The Fisherman and the Little Fish
If you got the prettiest girl in town to agree to marry you, wouldn’t you do whatever it took to meet her at the church? Even if it meant overcoming death itself?… Read More Grim Tales-John Charrington’s Wedding
Kay Mack 