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‘She sent him
flowers, white
roses’
TCO Mr Lyon
‘she would
retreat
nervously into
her skin’
TCO Mr Lyon
‘so she could
step out on his
arm to parties,’
‘Soon, before
the winter is
over.’
‘the stars and
the substances
of which they
were made’
TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon
TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon
‘she smiled at
herself in
mirrors a little
too often’
‘The soft wind
of spring
breathed in’
‘the thin ghost
of a light on
the verge of
extinction’
‘the tapers in
the chandelier
had drowned
in their own
wax’
Tears ‘under
their soft
transformation,
the bones showed
through the pelt’
‘“Do you know,”
said Mr Lyon, “I
think I might be
able to manage a
little breakfast
today, Beauty,’”
TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon TCO Mr Lyon Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride
‘Mr and Mrs
Lyon walk in
the garden’
‘the old spaniel
drowses on the
grass, in a drift
of fallen petals.’
‘My father lost
me to The
Beast at cards.’
think you’re in
the place
where ‘the lion
lies down with
the lamb’
Tiger’s Bride
‘acrid gouts of
wax on my
bare
shoulders’
Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride
‘Chill damp...
creeps into the
stones, into
your bones’
Girl nurse’s
‘Christmas
rose’
Father
‘feckless sprig
of the Russian
nobility’
‘He is a
carnival figure
made of papier
mâché’
‘I prick my
finger so he gets
his rose all
smeared with
blood’
‘to see the
pretty lady
unclothed
nude without
her dress’
‘a soubrette from
an operetta, with
glossy, nut-brown
curls, rosy cheeks,
blue, rolling eyes’
‘there is a
music box
where her
heart should
be’
‘I was a young
girl, a virgin,
and therefore
men denied me
rationality’
Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride
Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Tiger’s Bride Puss-in-Boots Puss-in-Boots
‘The lamb
must learn to
run with the
tigers’
‘send her back to
perform the part
of my father’s
daughter’
‘each stroke of
the tongue
ripped off skin’
‘Do you see
these fine, high,
shining leather
boots of mine?’
‘I swing
succinctly up
the façade’
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