PostsCommentsdouglass-mcleod in #hive-150329 • 7 days agoFree Preview IV from 'Goodnight Lavinia.'Solitaire They can hear talking outside, and then the inevitable tap on the door. Lavinia sucks up the tension in one elongated in-breath and expels as much fear as she…douglass-mcleod in #hive-150329 • 3 months agoFree Preview III from 'Goodnight Lavinia.'In the glow of the storm lantern *“We make sacrifices every day, Father…every day and every night, so our children may live. We humble, humiliate and, yes, sometimes we whore…douglass-mcleod in #hive-150329 • 5 months agoFree Preview II from 'Goodnight Lavinia.'Port au Prince 1940s *Lavinia lights a candle stub melded into the neck of an empty brown-stained rum bottle, sweeps away the sprigs, the leaf cuttings and the rock salt…douglass-mcleod in #hive-150329 • 5 months agoFree Preview from 'Goodnight Lavinia.'*She turns her attention to the window as the tracks split off and the overhead cables dip up and down. Then through the Gasworks and Copenhagen tunnels with the graffiti scrawls…douglass-mcleod in #hive-150329 • 8 months agoGoodnight LaviniaAll is not well in the house of Zahid, and on a bitter winter’s morning in 2006, Shaheera quits the family home in London via a downstairs window after the police fail to take…
