Listing Bookmarks

List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Various travels and musings of one Donald Scripps, recent graduate and aspiring writer.

    15 May 2012

  2. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Three days before the funeral, Scripps' mother calls him, just like she does every Sunday.

    15 May 2012

  3. Rec 4

    Summary

    “Come on,” says Dakin, smirking. “You can expose facts that aren’t generally taught in the history classes, provide a different perspective. We all know how much you love that.”

    18 Apr 2012

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  4. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    "You know," Scripps says, leaning back against the tree, "he's not nearly as wonderful as either of you seem to think he is."

    17 Apr 2012

  5. Public Bookmark 6

    Summary

    But when the snows at Christmas
    On Bredon top were strown,
    My love rose up so early
    And stole out unbeknown
    And went to church alone.

    Five tales of how Christmas was spent

    14 Apr 2012

  6. Public Bookmark 3

    Summary

    After school, nothing much happens to Posner.

    13 Apr 2012

  7. Public Bookmark 7

    Summary

    Posner and Scripps' relationship during their first year at university, in ten drabbles.

    2 Apr 2012

  8. Rec 2

    Summary

    Cathedrals crumble into the sea. Sometimes.

    27 Mar 2012

  9. Rec 3

    Summary

    A week into Oxford, Scripps finds himself a girl.

    9 Mar 2012

  10. Rec 9

    Summary

    In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. (Waugh)

    29 Feb 2012

  11. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Eleven verses Hector never taught them (but Scripps learned anyway).

    21 Feb 2012

  12. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    "Now he is green, dry and stained. With the shadow in his mouth."

    16 Feb 2012

  13. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Posner is appreciative of the alphabet.

    16 Feb 2012

  14. Public Bookmark 4

    Summary

    Stuart is a purposeful boy. He tends to set his mind to one particular task and will continue to work at it until he succeeds.

    Sometimes though, Dakin discovers, it takes more than hard work to get what you want in life.

    7 Feb 2012

  15. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    In the loo, Dakin kisses him, and it's the same test it always is, pushing for something he knows he'll never get, which makes it safe, which makes it predictable, easy and reassuring.

    31 Jan 2012

  16. Public Bookmark 2

    Summary

    It's December in Oxford, and there's one night left before the boys go home for the holidays.

    29 Jan 2012

  17. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Scripps is trying to pray but it isn't easy when he's being watched.

    12 Jan 2012

  18. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Posner cuts himself deliberately in an attempt to deal with his grief.

    7 Oct 2011

  19. Public Bookmark 1

    Summary

    Scripps is fed up of watching Dakin from the edge of the dancefloor.

    16 Aug 2011

  20. Public Bookmark 3

    Summary

    It had never been difficult to be friends. And that summer seemed to prove that it wouldn’t be even after starting at Oxford or Cambridge, because they needed each other now, didn’t they?

    3 Aug 2011

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