Author’s Note: I am now offering my services on Fiverr. I will beta read your poem(s) and short stories for … More
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Violette Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur & the Art of Distance
“I think that I shall never knowWhy I am thus, and I am so.”—A Fairly Sad Tale, Dorothy Parker ⧫ … More
Vampires in the Closet: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’
Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.
Mining the Red Wheelbarrow
so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens —The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams When I … More
June Diary ’24
The fresh, pink jelly of twenty-seven trips around the sun hits my soul. I spend the day eating cake and … More
Slouching Towards Black-Winged Dreams
Having always been married to the mystical, documenting my dreams is like breathing: it comes naturally. If you trawled through … More
In My Influencer Era…
I have been unhappy with my Instagram for a while now, and I follow quite a few book bloggers on … More
Books I’ve Enjoyed Recently in Photos
The Lover by Marguerite Duras — I’ve said it once, and I will say it again. The French know how … More
On The Vanities of Competitive Reading
January 2022 — Ah, yes, I will take on this personal experiment. I, Courtenay, will record the books I read … More
Books I Read in March
For the first half of the month, I hadn’t completed any books. But, I soon changed that. My life is … More
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