It was the third week in April. Back home, the narcissus would already be up, the snow (such as it was) a distant memory. But here—Aimée bent down to pick up Columbine, one of their two cats (Harlequin, the other, would, she knew, already be waiting for her on the kitchen table), and [...]
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Posted in Part One, Section 3, tagged Amagansett, cat, Columbine, delayed spring, French lilac, lily of the valley on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part One•Section III•1
Posted in Part One, Section 3, tagged aimée, Avignon, birdcage, budgies, Cours Soleya, perfectionism, Toulouse on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aimée was awakened by the sound of the two budgies calling from their cage to the sparrows nesting in the ivy outside her bedroom window. In the early morning light, her eyes traced the silhouette of their cage: a simple arched French wirework Cours Soleya find dating from the turn of the last century, with [...]
