Category: Cornwall
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The Comfort of Good Reasons
“I hadn’t lied,” Sylvia adds. “That’s what makes it interesting. I had simply chosen the explanation that made me look generous to myself.”
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On Authenticity, Freedom, and the Work of a Life
That arrangement, we suspect, is one of the subtler challenges of the twenty-first century.
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The Keeper of What Was Not Said
They stood there longer than was strictly polite, two women of an age when loitering attracts attention for reasons neither of them cared to correct.
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A New Year’s Walk
“People think bells are for calling,” Sylvia said. “But the old ones? They’re for returning.”
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The Man Who Walked Past Twice
The lights above the bar flickered. The music — an old Bing Crosby tune — hiccuped, warped, then steadied.
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The Carol of the Glass Bird
An elderly man stood behind the counter — or perhaps not a man; his features were fine, too pale, and his eyes too bright for the dusk.
