‘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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