Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Discovering the riveting poems of Manuel Ramos Otero

A sisterly scene on the tram in Basel

A new sense of “drain the swamp” in a statement by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“The property of strangers” in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865) and “the kindness of strangers” in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947)

“Thingummies”, “whatdoyoucallums”, and “whatshisnames” in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)

“Gaslight” in the novels of Charles Dickens, especially “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)