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The Adoption Papers is the debut poetry collection by the Scottish poet Jackie Kay. It was published in 1991 by Bloodaxe Books. It won the Forward Prize for best first collection. [1] The poems are autobiographical and relate Kay's adoption from three different perspectives, from that of her own, her mother's and her birth mother. [1] [2]
"A Death" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 9, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, [1] and collected in the November 3 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In his "Introduction" to the latter book, King suggests that he was somewhat inspired by The Hair of Harold Roux (1975), a novel by Thomas Williams , which King ...
A teen found a forever home after his TODAY appearance sparked an “instant” connection for his future adoptive parents.. In the fall of 2020, married couple Matt Bungo and Joe French were ...
The story then jumps forward in time to Polly's wedding day, ten years to the day after Bill's death. Katie has remarried, but she still misses Bill. On the anniversary of Bill's death, Katie is in Bill's old office and she finds an old VHS tape of Spider's Kiss and puts it into the player. She is immediately overcome with grief as she recalls ...
"My Recollections of S.B. Fairchild": Kafkaesque story of a family that tries to return a defective tape recorder to the department store where it was purchased. "Deck the Halls" "Lord of the Castle": Medieval-era tale about a young nobleman who enlists the powers of darkness to avenge the death of his father. "What a Thought" "When Barry Was ...
Work, Death, and Sickness", sometimes also translated as "The Right Way", is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1903. The story takes the form of a parable about the creation of work, death, and sickness.
The story begins with the mention of Ashton Doyne, a distinguished writer, who left his wife a widow.Mrs. Doyne decides to write a biography about her husband. Three months after the author's death, Mr. George Withermore, a young journalist and friend of the author, is approached by Mr. Doyne's publishers stating that Mrs. Doyne wants him to take on the role of writing her husband's biography.
Death reemerges not long thereafter, this time as a woman named death (the lowercase name is used to signify the difference between the death that ends life, and the Death who will end all of the Universe). She announces, through a missive sent to the media, that her experiment has ended, and people will begin dying again. However, in an effort ...