“This house will never be clean with her in it,” Violet screams in a rage she is not yet quite… Read more A Child-Hater Is More Human Than A Child
The Beauty Beast
“You’re a beautiful girl, but you make yourself up badly,” my cousin tells me in the moonlight hanging above Strasbourg.… Read more The Beauty Beast
The Architect’s Worst Nightmare Realized
The architect’s worst nightmare realized, believe it or not, has nothing to do with The Fountainhead constantly being brought up… Read more The Architect’s Worst Nightmare Realized
An Immediate Playback of Your Fucked Up Relationship
There has so often been talk of the value of being able to record all of one’s memories as… Read more An Immediate Playback of Your Fucked Up Relationship
The Pink Pussycat Lounge Strip Club
She had driven by many times in the back of her family’s station wagon before she became an employee there.… Read more The Pink Pussycat Lounge Strip Club
No Such Intimacy As This Franprix
When you are a shut-in, the slightest insult can feel heightened upon entering the outside world. This is, in part,… Read more No Such Intimacy As This Franprix
Flight Out of Assisi
We went to Assisi to rekindle our romance. It was my idea, not his. The decision to go there, in… Read more Flight Out of Assisi
Bretagne, Pas Grand
Of all the people she could have asked, could have reached out to–I’m still not really sure why it was… Read more Bretagne, Pas Grand
The Bistro Bitch
She might have known she would be reduced to working in a restaurant eventually. Her fate being sealed when “a… Read more The Bistro Bitch
L’albero di Spaghetti
Of course, no one would ever believe it once word got out that the entire segment on the BBC had… Read more L’albero di Spaghetti
