Cactus

A spiky plant full of water often found in deserts.

The Plurality of I, Us, and Odes

Posted on 19th July 202313th July 2023 by Bok McDonagh

Declensions in English are less common than some other languages, but they are still used. One such use is for plurals, usually achieved by adding an s to the end of a word, e.g. cow vs. cows. However, this is not the only way we indicate plurality in English.

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.