It was a place Ailsa knew as a girl, both from visiting and from the stories her family told, the myths and legends of the Cairngorms, a beautiful

It is the elegantly furnished and tastefully demure drawing room of a suburban couple, the small dining table for two in the corner, the drinks trolley beside it,

“She wasn’t some apron-wearing hourglass who waited for her husband to get home; she was a witch.” A line worthy of the great Shirley Jackson, the celebrated and influential

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A tiny cog in the huge grinding machine of state, subject 6079 Smith W has little power to change anything other than that which he is specifically directed

It was a tragedy which robbed a community of the lives of seventeen children, no answers and no explanations why the entire third-grade class of teacher Justine Gandy

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