Our Cynical Omelet
This is simultaneously the thing I hate and love about horror stories of a certain era, in this case as spoken by a character in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan.
She was sitting up in bed, and I listened to her as
she spoke in her beautiful voice, spoke of things which even now
I would not [...]
Spending so much time snowed in this winter revived a nascent interest in cooking, and over the past two months, I began to play around with recipe sites and magazine—all of which, over the past six weeks or so, have been flogging recipes for cassoulet.
Until this, I remembered the word only as a shorthand for [...]
Mermaid In Exile, the previous name for this space, never seems to have got off the ground. So welcome to Our Cynical Omelet, future home of such vignettes as I choose to share. Enjoy!