"and sometimes even music / cannot substitute for tears"

Another night-sky time-lapse: Temporal Distortion. Good use not just of the sky but the landscape of the western US (played in this case by South Dakota). No apologies for the soundtrack.

Ann Radcliffe wrote a posthumously published gothic romance in verse. That is very little I can say in reaction. (Contemporary reviewers were not as reticent.)

stillnotbored's latest first-line contest has started, and the prompt is an especially good one.

---L.