Rennie walked up the narrow pathway leading to Aimée and Morris’ house. It was, he mused, a singular home: a small, cereal box of a semi-detached house, in many ways indistinguishable from all the others on this (rather ugly) street; it was, though, unlike any place else that he had ever been, for it [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Part One•Section XVI•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 16, tagged chien bizarre, fascia, gable, ivy, soffit, threshold on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part One•Section XV•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 15, tagged disappointment, perfectionism, Yeats on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After pouring what was left of her coffee down the sink in a small washroom adjacent to her office, Arden contemplated her reflection in the mirror. Illuminated by the dim light of a single window, the gaze that met her own belonged to the kind of woman she might have wanted (if she [...]
Part One•Section XIV•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 14, tagged lilacs, lilies-of-the-valley, perfection, the owl and the pussycat on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taking an embarrassment of lilacs—four bunches! but their season was so short; the winter had been so gloomy; their loveliness was so tinged with nostalgia—into the shop to pay for them, Aimée noticed a small container filled with lilies-of-the-valley on the counter beside the cash register. They were much too expensive, but were such elegant [...]
One•XIII•2
Posted in Part One, Section 13, tagged brogues, cardigan, coffee, failure, modernism, perfection on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Caitlin. That was it. She was one of those wispy, willowy Woolfish girls who dressed in cardigans and brogues and thought themselves above wearing make-up; girls like Cressida Lord and Aimée Gentil who, when they were all students together in Jon Chandler’s seminar on Modernism, had been thought so clever, so creative. Where were they [...]
