With the first consistent amount of sun of the season (if one can call anything a season anymore), Bianca–appropriately named… Read more Some People Are Tanning And Others Are Pretending to Work on a Rooftop
Tag: France
I’m Alone, You’re Alone/I’m OK, You’re Not OK
Cagnes-sur-Mer. It wasn’t necessarily at the top of the list of French Riviera towns compared to, say, Nice, Antibes or… Read more I’m Alone, You’re Alone/I’m OK, You’re Not OK
The Corner Where Straight Men Go To Atrophy
It was never made clear how the divide began. But for those still arguing that there is equality or “sameness”… Read more The Corner Where Straight Men Go To Atrophy
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
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
Picture This
“I don’t know, I just can’t picture you in Paris,” she noted with her usual tinge of passive aggressiveness. That… Read more Picture This
Alone, Together at the Aparthotel
Something in her knew it was going to be ill-advised to leave the arrangements for the lodging to Lucien. It… Read more Alone, Together at the Aparthotel
The Plume Protector
He was adamant, nay, obsessed with pens. It was the one thing in his life that he needed–absolutely had to–have… Read more The Plume Protector
Maison de Victor Hugo
You never particularly liked Victor Hugo. Thought he was too “grandiose” in his maudlinness. Though you had to admit there… Read more Maison de Victor Hugo
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