The fading light was beginning to make it difficult to read the sheet music, so Rennie was pleased to take a break while Pierrot ran upstairs to fetch a book. In the darkening room (a room that was already and always dim, he realized, with two of its three windows letting only filtered green [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Part One•Section XXIII•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 23, tagged doll's house, failure, Japanese prints, moleskin notebook, perfection on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part One•Section XXII•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 22, tagged cassis, crème de menthe, eau-de-nil, framboise, mazagrand, patisserie, petit fours, tabouret on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aimée placed the fragile celadon sugar bowl and a matching pitcher filled with warmed milk on the tray next to the coffee pot. Then she set down a crazed faience mazagrand (in the same soft green), a sterling silver demi-spoon with a yellowed ivory handle, a light plum linen napkin edged in cream cutwork embroidery, and a [...]
Part One•Section XXI•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 21, tagged Azeroth, Deathwing, Grim Batol, life tap, Obsidian Sanctum, shadow ward, Sinestra, soulstone, World of Warcraft on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pierrot read the words over and over:
And ay the stound, the deadly wound,
Came froe her een sae bonnie blue.
Lady Sinestra, consort of Deathwing, scourge of Azeroth in Grim Batol—the stound, the deadly wound—looking over the twin eggs within the Obsidian Sanctum. His Warlock [...]
Part One•Section XX•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 20, tagged Arabica, Chambord, coffee, daguerreotype, flute, French press, marquetry, unrequited love on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aimée flipped the switch on the electric kettle and, for a moment, stared vacantly out the French doors leading to the backyard. In the wan late afternoon light of early April, with no hint of green yet in the landscape, the tangled bushes, bare trees and muddy ground might have been images [...]
