"It was written on the small brown sheets of toilet paper with which we were supplied.
He wrote of the body: "Through my small bone island I have learnt all I know, experienced all, and sensed all".
Ms. Foote, 50, writes of the hopes, dreams and struggles of small-town New Englanders, much as her father wrote of the hopes, dreams and struggles of small-town Texans.
The father who wrote of the graveside book dedication called them small acts of love.
The discipline of writing for the small screen, paring away words and details, was pleasurable.
After the first day of battle, Buford wrote of his small force, "The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and on July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
So much so that by the time Mom finished her survey she had written millions of the smallest unit of speech that can stand by itself: words.
The Irish dramatist and critic Dion Boucicault wrote in 1889 of the "small space" in front of the curtain which belongs to both the stage and the auditorium (a word, interestingly, which he claims to have invented), and in which the actors appear somewhere in between their lives on the stage as characters and their lives in the world as real people.
Describing the public sympathy for sea otters that developed from media coverage of the event, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson wrote: The small geographic ranges of the sea otter populations in California, Washington, and British Columbia mean a single major spill could be catastrophic for that state or province.
In truth, I was relieved and have duly settled into four months of writing; writing into the small hours, writing the poems my nine-to-five had not given me time to produce.
