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  About writers Writers and miners have something in common, I think. Daily we search for and hope to find the rich seams we need. Some writers discover a seam so productive that they simply keep digging the way the seam leads them. My problem is that I am too easily bored. I find a rich seam, dig like crazy, and then move on to a new seam, a different seam. I may return to the old one later, I often do. This somewhat impatient and immature way of mining for my stories is reflected in this collection of tales. And there is a good reason for it, a good excuse, anyway. All of these stories, except one, have been written at the behest of someone else, a friend or an editor. So I’ve been digging away contentedly in my seam when some story mining expert (editor) comes up with a proposal that I might write a short story about such and such. ‘Stop your digging there,’ she says. ‘Look over there and follow that seam. It looks promising.’ Whether I do as I’m told entirely depends ...

 

 

  Union Street Cafe Four critics comment on the restaurant C A few weeks ago, the Daily Mirror reported that he withdrew as an investor in his chum Gordon Ramsay’s Union Street Cafe, which opened in Southwark on Monday. The Mirror did not explain why, revealing only that the two men ‘wanted different things.' A  We could speculate for hours about what that means, but let me posit this theory: Beckham wanted a really good restaurant, and Ramsay wanted something else. This is not to suggest he wanted a really bad restaurant. Eccentric as his psycho shtick may make him appear, he is not clinically insane, and this newbie, his 10th in Britain, is far from atrocious. D It would be more endearing or at least more memorable if it were. What makes it so irksome is the so-what-iciness of this rather brand-new restaurant.    B If any among you still doubt that David Beckham is an exceedingly smart cookie, members of the jury, allow me to submit the clinching evidence...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://app.engxam.com/fce/reading/1/  

The builders are going to repair that snaking road around the mountain before long. The priest filmed the pilgrimage yesterday. God ordered to hallow the Sabbath day by doing no work. The writer has given the novel a foreboding atmosphere. That bad weather made the harvest prices plummet.  

 

 

 

https://app.engxam.com/cae/reading/5/  

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.classroomclipboard.com/742306/Test/5A2F1D56-AFB5-445B-9A30-D6B6F19263E9  

 

 

 

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