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Apr.16.2010 A Thief in the Night William Orpen Self-portrait 1917 Following Tuesday's post, an excerpt from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the...	Oct.14.2009 Facing the Music Bel begins to confront one or two of her demons. (From my Marion Grace novel THE GODMOTHER) It was a modern studio, airy and spacious, with skylights and halogen spotlights. A waxed pine floor dimly reflected its only functional ornament, a...
Jul.26.2009 Saturday Night Fever An excerpt from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, as yet unrevised and unedited. Dysfunctional family wrestles with the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain under its dour but charismatic oracle,Sibyl. Sibyl had been twenty-seven when she met Edwin at a...	Apr.10.2009 Exit Stage Yesterday's blog re-posted. A gremlin apparently got into the works! Thank you for your patience. Continuing Monday's and Wednesday's blog: In Sibyl's final hours, the truth would out. Then the Angel was gone, taking the burnished air with him and leaving...
Apr.09.2009 Exit Stage Continuing Monday's and Wednesday's blog: In Sibyl's final hours, the truth would out. Then the Angel was gone, taking the burnished air with him and leaving darkness to settle around Sibyl’s bed. She could have sworn she heard the echo of his footsteps diminishing to...	Apr.08.2009 Voice of Conscience (continued from Monday's blog. Sibyl's near death experience.) “You’ve been a long time coming!” “The road was blocked,” said the Angel. “Now is the hour...” “I’m being kept here in the waiting-room. Why can’t I see God?” “You dare not look upon the countenance of...
Apr.06.2009 Waiting Room A further passage from my unedited and unrevised Marion Grace novel The Godmother There were no cobwebs on the ceiling. It was finished in a hazy blue sheen with clusters of shining planets, not a speck of cloud in sight. There’d been a shower, though, because the...	Mar.19.2009 Oyster Shell In the week of St Patrick, a passage from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER. (Dysfunctional family wrestles in the aftermath of two World Wars.) Sibyl had worried about the barbarian at the gate ever since she could remember. No doubt it was a legacy of the ethnic ancestor to which her mother...
Mar.16.2009 A Dickens of a Job A passage from my Marion Grace novel, The Godmother, as yet unedited and unrevised. The world is on the cusp of the new millennium. WHO WASTES TIME MURDERS SUCCESS. This was the warning stamped upon the moonfaced clock in Mr Adrian Goodman’s office. Its second hand jerked, puppet-fashion,...