And for all you writers unknown to me at present … I hope to meet you soon.
A Man with a Lot of Explaining to Do
She understood that her great grand uncle Emmett liked acquiring things. She understood too that he had a fondness for telling stories. In another few years, it became clear that what Emmett Dorn liked most was observing people, messing with them, and then killing them.
Murder on the Danube
“Come Rifka, it will be a game. We will be able to swim to the bottom where there is a playground and lots of children playing.”
From the Terrace of the Hotel Fujiview; It Rained Last Night ; Advanced Intermediates; Abracadabra; Young Woman Bathing
Seaside mountebanks bemuse.
Practiced hands and eyes
contrive to extricate your
trick of hearts with some
success.
Bookish
As a prose writer now myself I am taught and retaught by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Penelope Fitzgerald, Bernard Malamud and L. P. Hartley, Sylvia Townsend Warner and J. G. Farrell. And Dickens, always Dickens.
The Wedding Specialist
Reba sat in her usual place in a chair next to the bride. Her head was bent over the list she held in her palm; accounts of gifts and givers. Rows of names neatly recorded against each gift, in her pearl-like handwriting. She had done this innumerable times, at every family wedding.