News had a way of falling into one of two categories: good or bad. From time to time a piece of news would fit both of them, which worried both writers and readers. It was much harder to deal with good news that could be bad news and vice versa ( Read more... )

The facts were these: having reached the age of thirty when the statistics and usually believed realities of life and death would argue to the contrary was quite an accomplishment. Charlotte Charles had not had a proper birthday since she was eight years old, before the death of her father and before being swept into a life of solitude and ( Read more... )

The facts were these: after twenty nine, nearly thirty years of a cheerful and chipper disposition and a tendency to love adventuous and optimistic, Charlotte Charles who was better known as Chuck realised that she had clearly been misinformed ( Read more... )