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@douglass-mcleod Oct 31, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

Martha Wilberforce

In the fall of ’78, Martha Wilberforce had driven several hundred tedious miles northeast when about an hour after St Louis she clapped eyes on the epitome of everything about this country that made…

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@douglass-mcleod Dec 26, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

Free Preview V from 'Goodnight Lavinia.'

“You’ll have to sleep in here with me, Lavinia.” She strips off in silence and climbs in. Lavinia watches her curl up, looking for the sanctuary of sleep. Petra stares at the flaky mustard coloured w…

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@douglass-mcleod Nov 19, 2024, 12:22 PM UTC

Free 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 can. “Come in, Ignatius.”…

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@douglass-mcleod Sep 9, 2024, 3:11 PM UTC

Free 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 ourselves for their s…

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@douglass-mcleod Jul 10, 2024, 9:43 AM UTC

Free 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 from a grainy wooden…

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@douglass-mcleod Jun 25, 2024, 2:14 PM UTC

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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 like scent markings.…

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@douglass-mcleod Mar 14, 2024, 11:12 AM UTC

Goodnight Lavinia

All 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 her domestic troubles s…

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Martha Wilberforce

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