Blog: The Donnybrook Writing Academy

The smell of a thousand dead hornets decaying in the little space above my kitchen cabinets has left me in a thoughtful mood presently. The smell isn't quite dead animal smell – it's dead insect smell: an odor normally so minute that it would never register, but multiplied by a thousand, it reeks horribly. The scary part was that before the exterminator came, I heard this faint noise in the kitchen above the cabinets that sounded like if you were to ball up a plastic grocery bag and let it re-expand next to your ear. To think I [...]