Amelia saw an old beggar on the street, resting on a stone. She rummaged in her pocket and found her last coin, and wanted to give it to him. But the man shook his head. He would not take it. ‘I’m sorry,’ he said, ‘but I don’t work on Sundays.’
You know you've found the right name for a character when you speak that name aloud and the character shouts: 'Hey! That's me!' In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the protagonists are a man and his boy, both unnamed. In this case, the lack of names makes the characters and the message they convey more … Continue reading Naming Characters
The doctors told her she had lung cancer. There was nothing they could do about it. ‘You have 2 years left, at most. Sorry.’ For a while she felt miserable and wept. But soon her tears dried. From then on she prepared her modest funeral. And she started smoking too.
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