Greg is in the middle of stepping out the door when he finds his foot hovering over a small bundle wrapped in a worn, hand-knitted blanket.

Oh no, he thinks. Not again.

How to Get Back Up

Step One: Get knocked down.

6 – The five-thirty news reports it.

they say

your heart

is as big as

your fist

but mine is

bigger on the inside…

The last thing Kingsley was expecting on a sunny, but cool, Tuesday morning was to find himself toe to nose with a particularly silky black cat.

It was a dark and stormy night, and Edgar Gaunt had been standing on the doorstep, rain pelting down the back of his jacket, for seven and a half minutes.

“The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything […] Everybody knew it.” - EB White

In all the millennia he’s loved her, this is his favorite.