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July 2014

July 03, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Beware of Little Old Ladies!

A little old woman came hobbling along, her crooked cane feeling for the cracks between...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Humming

Miss Hisselpenny found most of the books in Alexia’s father’s library shameful to read. She...

June 19, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Angelfood Cake

The Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the...

June 12, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: A Serious Mummy Problem

Here's something you didn't know about the Incas: Because the royal mummies were not considered...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Word I Wish I’d Written: Sweaters

It really was an awful garment, that pullover. It had a queasy zigzag pattern, in...

May 22, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Chess

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in...

May 15, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Misery

Sergeant Colon was a picture of misery, drawn on a lumpy pavement in bad crayon...

May 08, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Evening Dress

It was definitely evening dress. You couldn’t get away with it in daylight. — Terry...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Archie Says: Dying in Character

Breslow looked as if he had been born flushed with anger and would die, when...

April 10, 2014

Archie Says: On Locks and Listening

Archie Goodwin on locks and listening: It is always a temptation to monkey with locks,...

April 03, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: On Facial Hair

The baron sat down. He was a large, red-faced man, insofar as a face could...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Summer is a Creature

And summer isn’t a time. It’s a place as well. Summer is a moving creature...

March 13, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: A Tuba among Flutes

Now, about Markham V. Reynolds (Junior). Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very...

March 06, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Suspenders with Tails

That’s one of the fine features of tailing; wherever the subject leads you, you will...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Zeal and Resolve

Carrot stared straight ahead of him with the glistening air of one busting with duty...

February 20, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Ad Hoc Repairs

It was less the antique feel— the red and gold lacquer, or the translucent panels...

February 13, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Finding Your Dreams

For a time, great fleets of suspension ships sought to relieve population pressures at home...

February 06, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: The Great Nutrax Row

IT WAS ON THE Friday of the week in which all these stirring incidents occurred...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Red Tsunami

He looked up at the duchess, towering over him now like a red tsunami over...

January 23, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Solitary Rocks

A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale...

January 16, 2014

Word I Wish I’d Written: Self-Confidence

As she plunged down toward the forest roof in a long shallow dive she reflected...

January 09, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: My Wife’s Room

I followed him out, along the hall, and into a room that one glance told...

January 02, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Droit de Seigneur

The duke often mused on his good luck in marrying her. If it wasn’t for...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Provision for Discourse

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of...

December 19, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: FBI Man

You don’t have to believe me, but I would have known after one look at...

December 12, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Vulgar Language

She pronounced a word which she should have kept to herself, since there was a...

December 08, 2013

Dead as a Doornail

Sometimes as I'm reading I'll say to myself, "I like that sentence a whole lot."...

December 05, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad, Bad Beer

The travelers were served by the innkeeper, whose manner suggested that he hoped they died...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Barton Cottage

As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage...

November 14, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Talents

Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents. — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather, speaking...