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Katie and Dave Katie looks at her phone and then her dad. He is staring at the TV and hasn't turned to acknowledge her when she came in. She reaches for the phone, the knowledge that she'd never leave it there uppermost in her mind. She wonders whether to say anything but she's nervous.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
I liked We Were Liars. It's a book which is to be respected for the way in which the truth is unfurled throughout the book; in the way that the author keeps us guessing from start to finish; in the way that secrets that divide are dripped into the narrative.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
Meeting
Bethan I've had a text. It's from Luke! He wants to meet! Well, that's unexpected! You know, I'm relieved. I think that if he hadn't've texted me, I'd have been thinking Why doesn't he want to meet me? It would have made me suspicious? Wary? I don't know. Uneasy? At least, he wants to meet somewhere public so that feels like safe ground.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
An Invitation. Top Story - November 2024.
Luke I haven't slept. I'm going over and over and over in my mind what happened yesterday. I don't know what to do. Funny. I've lived with the knowledge of what happened to Laney all these years and it's been awful. I've not handled it well. I'm still a young man but you can tell something's ravaged me. It's in the bags under my eyes and the worry of my lines. I see it every day in the mirror, the cost of keeping this secret.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Ebberman
Ebberman - one who fishes under bridges I'm not a fisherman. I've never been fishing although there is something about the stillness and patience of it that attracts me, like metal detecting or searching for a small cowrie shell in a scattering of shale on the seashore.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Poets
Dilemma? Or Resolution?
Luke She's gone. My hands are shaking. I need a drink. No! I...can't go there again. I need...Matt...no....shit!! She put something through the door but I don't want to go downstairs in case...in case what? She ambushes me? She drove off so she's not outside anymore. But I'm scared. Scared to fucking live. Scared to go out.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: The Night Garden: Of My Mother by Sandra Tyler
This was a very moving book and very raw. I have chosen to open my review in the same direct way that Sandra Tyler has her book, as you are exposed immediately to the extent of her grief at her mother's passing. It's like an emotional drenching.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
The Boys - Revealed
Bethan and Katie Bethan is at work when Katie calls and heads to the disabled bathroom to take it in relative privacy. Her boss has been tolerant of her recent absences and has been understanding of her difficulties but Bethan knows that this will continue only up to a point and that she may be fast reaching that.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
