Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Women's Short Stories

Author: Sylvia Plath

I lay there alone in bed, feeling the black shadow creeping up the underside of the world like a flood tide. Nothing held, nothing was left. The silver airplanes and the silver capes all dissolved and vanished, wiped away like the crude drawings of a child in coloured chalk from the colossal blackboard of the dark.The writings in this collection outline Plath’s early preoc….Read More

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