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    Zora
    Zora
    Zora
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    Zora

    By Ann Michaels

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    I was visiting Serbia, researching my family tree, when I first met the woman who would become my wife. Zora had been surrounded by white butterflies and I had felt this great surge of emotion. But at the time, I think that I was still an innocent about the world. I had not taken seriously my father's words about a 'curse of the blood' and I knew nothing about the vampire, Sava Savanović. This would soon change.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnn Michaels
    Release dateJan 4, 2017
    ISBN9781370280995
    Zora
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    Ann Michaels

    “Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. ... It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.” —Enid Bagnold “It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.” —PD James Samuel Beckett was the poet laureate of the comma splice. He closed his novel “The Unnamable” with a long sentence that ends: ... perhaps it’s done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. Which goes to show, I suppose, that rules are made to be broken.

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