PEARL October 1916
Both wars of the age were heating up, as hot as the Indian summer that kept our windows wide open, that kept us drenched in the sweat of all kinds.
More suffragettes than ever marched, picketed, and were arrested, and yet once more, the amendment"s failure was predicted in the upcoming vote.
On the first of the month, Germany had launched major counterattacks on British soldiers in Polygon Wood, West Flanders, and Belgium. Since July, the Allies had been fighting the German Empire for control of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, with no end in sight.
The weight of it all sucked creativity from my soul as surely as the tide sucks the waves out to sea twice a day. I had heard of this, the depletion of the soul as the murderer of creativity. Art is born in the
