Aran was certain that it was only a matter of time before Rosa Klebb (Skye and her name for their mother, derived from Arden’s proclivity for—and horrifying prowess at—routing out their innermost secrets) found the stash of make-up that was hidden beneath a loose board at the bottom of the armoire. She checked [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Part One•Section XXV•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 25, tagged armoire, secrets on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One•XXIV•3,4&5
Posted in Part One, Section 24, tagged fiction, petit fours, dog, jealousy on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Well, actually,” Rennie paused to carefully select one of the cubes of sugar—they had rounded corners and were, he thought, the color of the sand at Jetties Beach, where he had spent holidays as a boy—”I have been insanely busy.”
Why, Morris wondered, did he find Rennie so irritating: he was too tall, too [...]
Part One•XXIV•Paragraphs 1&2
Posted in Part One, Section 24, tagged birthday, marché, mignardises, resentment on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Punch roused himself from his post on the living room carpet, where he had been keeping vigil over the three pastel mignardises, and, with one last wistful glance at his little fondant charges, went to greet Morris, who, after fiddling with the key in the lock (hadn’t he just paid a small fortune [...]
Part One•XXIII•2&3
Posted in Part One, Section 23, tagged cat, dog, doll, fiction, lavender, lilacs, lily of the valley, mantelpiece on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
His eye followed the lines of the compact white marble mantelpiece. The graceful curves of its cymatium and angled corbels, and the finely turned and elegantly rounded central shell-and-leaf motif countered the feeling that he had somehow been placed—like a porcelain doll set within her square house—into a small and absolutely rectilinear cardboard box. At [...]
