Mari's Midnight Garden

“What is it?” He suppressed a yawn. He wasn’t tired; the day had just been extraordinarily long. “Do you believe in ghosts?” Mick almost laughed. “I grew up in Appalachia, in Baxter fucking Harlan County, Kentucky, and you’re asking me this? This whole county is haunted by something. Why?” disclaimer–poetry and fiction snippet content are [...]

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Bronte, in the preface to the second edition of Jane Eyre