The girl put a lighted kerosene lamp upon the table and served herself with a single plateful of food from the frying-pan. Once she stood still, listening, but only the muffled noise of the brook and the lone wolf baying broke the silence. For a brief instant her glance rested on the telephone...
With these mortal eyes I beheld within a brief space of time three peerless souls unfold and blossom, and then wither away and perish one by one: the most beautiful, most passionate, and most miserable souls ever embodied in the latest descendants of a haughty race.
In the gigantic Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Virginia a sliver of land lies exposed to the smile of the sun and the fury of wind and tide. It almost missed being an island, for it is only inches above the sea. The early Indians who poled over from the mainland to hunt deer and otter and...
Dennis Yu is the CEO of CoachYu, a digital marketing company which partners with schools to train young adults.He’s a former Yahoo search engine engineer who optimizes ads and analytics across search and social that he’s turned into training to create good jobs for aspiring digital...
As our team is completely remote, it's important we all follow these systems and expectations to ensure we work together as a cohesive team. As a member of a team, you must understand that these are the non-negotiable expectations.Communication is KEYWe expect our team members to respond to...
We break goals into two different parts. The first half is your mission. This is your WHY, or what you want to do with your brand, product, or business. Do you want to teach people how to cook? Sell a product? Write music people will enjoy listening to?Whatever it is, every brand and company has...
Jack loves his mother, and that is why the naggin’s reach right through the little blue jacket and touches his heart. And the tremblin’ onhappiness of the heart makes the blue eyes shet about half up in a forlorn way, and the red lips quiver. I’ve seen ’em. Why, good land! Jack hain’t...
“Ai-ee! I see them!” panted Iskatappe, over his shoulder, and pointing to the west. “The Spanish!” “It may be running buffalo, or a big wind,” answered Skidi.“Shall we halt and wait?” proposed Letalesha. “No. It is they. It does not move fast enough for buffalo or wind. It is on...
Yaller Rock got so disgusted with him that they sent him to the Legislature, where he collected all the loose money in sight, and showed his appreciation of things by passing a few laws favoring sheep. He orated his views in Piperock, the same of which was contrary to our religion, and—let me...
Stretched upon the sun-warmed stones of the rampart, the parapet just shielding them from the rays of the declining sun, Danaë and her sister Angeliké squabbled noisily over the heap of sunflower seeds between them. Danaë ate fair, taking one seed at a time, but Angeliké had a greedy habit of...