The art of the right word, of the sentence which at once tells of an unassailable truth and how that truth fits in the world: you had this incredible gift. Your childhood, the poignant poetry of the last decade of the dying 19th century, all the hopes that died in the tranchées, and yet, what … Continue reading #FiveSentenceFiction: Charmed
French Literature
Daily Prompt: Green-Eyed Monster
Tell us about the last time you were really, truly jealous of someone. Did you act on it? Did it hurt your relationship? I admire him, he is the father, the imperious maître, perhaps the last of the Renaissance men. And you loved him, you loved him beyond your life, and for him you … Continue reading Daily Prompt: Green-Eyed Monster
#FiveSentenceFiction: Shadows
For Dominique Aury Through the magic of things written I am trying to find you: and you are in so many places, present, resolutely the woman you always were. So it is, for me, that you live on, your writing a seductive light of decency and wonderful poetry, for everything I read from you is … Continue reading #FiveSentenceFiction: Shadows
