ROSE HALDANE “There were hundreds of varieties of rose and some days Rose certainly didn’t feel like she merited the association, though she preferred the name to Rosemary. “I’m a flower, not a herb,” had been her standard retort as a child. Sam called her every derivative, every bastardisation, including Roz, Rosa and once even Rosalind, Shakespeare’s heroine. This insulted Rose the most, she preferred Beatrice’s wit. ‘Rosalind’, she’d written in a sixth form essay, ‘was rather wet.’ Her teacher had scrawled across the bottom in green ink: Subjective. Prove it. Facts not assumption.”
Coming soon…
‘IGNORING GRAVITY’ #1 – the first instalment of Rose Haldane’s captivating story.
Too many poetic references! SD
A rose by any other name… Oh my love is like a red red rose… Yes, if you were named Rose, you could get tired of it.