He met his death after being attacked by his own dogs, which had gone mad from near-starvation, food being scarce during the siege. His children abandoned the home after the war, and no one lived there there for many decades afterward, though it might not be fair to say the house was uninhabited. Over the [...]
In her later years, my mother nursed the dying, feeding and bathing them and generally offering comfort. Though she did this for monetary compensation, I do not believe her motives were entirely crass, and the death of a patient often left her deeply moved. When her own time came, I found myself in the role [...]
“The year before I began my schooling, the River Derbane school burned to the ground in a tragic accident, killing one student and leaving several others with terrible scars. My older sister, whose apparent gift of “second sight” I have mentioned before, refused to attend school that day, and later told me she’d had a [...]
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