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Stewart Stafford

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New York, The United States

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Stewart was born in New York City to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when he was three years old.

His natural gift for writing appeared early (he is related to the Irish poet Austin Clarke). His first school report card when he was five had just one comment at the end: "Stewart writes very interesting stories."

He listened to his grandmother's tales of the Banshee in her kitchen and was enthralled and terrified. It was direct exposure to Ireland's Celtic storytelling tradition, and he got hooked. Stewart loves the folktales, traditions and superstitions of Ireland, the country that gave the world the festival of Halloween and Dracula author Bram Stoker. He went on to do an Irish Folklore course in University College Dublin. He ...more

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	The Vorbing (The Dubhtayl Saga #1) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tripping Off The Tongue

Southpaw Serpent by Stewart Stafford

She was a left-handed artist,
More paint on her face than on canvas,
‘Here, take this,’ she said to me,
‘It takes you to the snake with the atlas.’

I grasped the nettle of her riddle,
An eyeball roulette elixir of time.
Each sandy step I took after that
Veered from horrific to the sublime.

I found myself at a beach house party,
Remorse coiled in laundry bags hissed,
They

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Stewart Stafford wrote a new blog post Tripping Off The Tongue Southpaw Serpent by Stewart StaffordShe was a left-handed artist,More paint on her face than on canvas,‘Here, take this,’ she said to me,‘It takes you Read more of this blog post »
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Stewart Stafford shared a quote “Southpaw Serpent by Stewart Stafford She was a left-handed artist, More paint on her face than on canvas, 'Here, take this,' she said to me, 'It takes you to the snake with the atlas.' I grasped the nettle of her riddle, An eyeball roulette elixir of time. Each sandy step I took after that Veered from horrific to the sublime. I found myself at a beach house party, Remorse coiled in laundry bags hissed, They reeked of promise unfulfilled, And of sweet opportunities missed. Girls morphed into southpaw painters, Pointing and urging me to go on, A police raid, I fled to the rooftop, As dawn cracked open the sun. I frantically crafted glitter collages, Kaleidoscopes of close friends and I, The leftie girlie dyed her hair, judging, The winner was a mirrored all-seeing eye. © 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” ...more Stewart Stafford
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Stewart Stafford shared a quote “Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1645 – 1647) by Stewart Stafford ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ – Exodus, Nor allow legalised killing too cheaply, Twenty shillings of blood money per witch, A charlatan’s extortion for ‘cleansing.’ Witchcraft, the capital crime of the age, Lawyer Hopkins, parasitising laws, Self-appointed Witchfinder General, A reign of terror brought to God-fearing doors. Evildoing’s hunter was its embodiment; A Judas purse wed brutality’s handmaiden, With Stearne, stoked Essex witch hunt mania, Puritanical zeal’s sadistic cruelty. His victims were cast into dungeon pits; Bloodied and broken in outcast desperation; Disease helped some cheat the hangman; The only fortune anyone deemed fair. Extracting confessions through torture’s pain; Their skin pricked to find Satan’s mark, Victims, forced to run until collapse, Sleepless starvation hastened their bleak end. Then to the wicked ducking stool gauntlet, Lowered into muddy ditches or icy water, A survivor’s noose or drowned exo ...more Stewart Stafford
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Stewart Stafford rated a book it was amazing The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Stewart Stafford made a comment on Tamuna Tsertsvadze’s review of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) " Read this when I was 10 years old and loved the rich, Gothic atmosphere and the peek into the mindset and process of fiction's greatest detective. ...more "
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“When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: comprehend, comprehension, condescension, knowledge, knowledge-of-people, philosophy-of-life, understand, understanding, understanding-oneself-and-others, understanding-others, understanding-quotes

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“Do not weep for those who have found Death's embrace early, for they weep for us that linger on in this mortal world of pain.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: death, death-of-a-child, dying-young, grief-and-loss, life-and-death, living-on, sorrow, surviving, surviving-life, world-of-p-ain

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“Anyone who dies by their own hand always has my sympathy. It's easy to sit in judgement on another's struggle from the outside without ever living in their suffocating darkness. If there is an explanation left behind, it usually confirms how relentlessly harsh and unfair they were on themselves. Mourn their release with mercy and gratitude for doing what they were capable of in their short lives.”
― Stewart Stafford

tags: anxiety, depression, judging-others, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, robin-williams, self-harm, suicidal, suicide, taking-your-own-life

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“Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told — on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others — there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change — passing on the fire like a torch — forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.”
― Tanith Lee

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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