Mealtime”A mousie squealing in a trapWoke me from my morning nap.Wasn’t he so very sweetTo tell me it was time to eat?”(From A CAT’S GARDEN OF VERSES)

It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. …After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is...

The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to...