Martine Leavitt
Birth date: January 01, 1953
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The story within the story is that of the girl, Keturah, who meets Death in the woods. Much like the classic, One Thousand and One Nights, she begins telling him a story so he would spare her life. But she leaves off the ending and promises to tell it the very next day. Things happen and Death relen...
I realized the doctor was leaving the room, and I was talking out loud to nobody. And that's why they want to put people on medication. Calvin is a high school senior on the verge of graduation and a bright future. If only he had the ability to focus. He reaches a breaking point and has a schizophre...
The big downside of being a reviewer is that, if you dig too far into a genre, you start judging books for what they could be instead of what they are. And this isn't necessarily a problem - there are books that are such a waste of potential, it's criminal - but for others, it's extremely easy to st...
At the corner of Hasting and Main, she stands. Waiting with a pink ballet shoe on one foot and an apple green sandal on the other, she passes the time with Widow. What comes from Widow’s mouth is harsh but Angel takes comfort in the words and feels at ease with the woman who stands beside her night...
A grim, ugly subject but a beautifully told story, poignant and full of compassion.
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