French Artist Killed in Sunday's Earthquake: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
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The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy has written more than a dozen works of fiction (including Night Came with Many Stars and The Presence of Absence) and is the editor of three volumes of philosophy. Raised in rural North Wales, Simon currently lives between London and New York, where he is a volunteer EMT for Central Park Medical Unit and RVAC. In early 2020, he rescued his first mouse.
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French Artist Killed in Sunday's Earthquake - Simon Van Booy
French Artist Killed in Sunday’s Earthquake
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Simon Van Booy
Dedication
To Maddie
Contents
Dedication
French Artist Killed in Sunday’s Earthquake
Acknowledgments
An Excerpt from Tales of Accidental Genius
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
FRENCH ARTIST KILLED IN SUNDAY’S EARTHQUAKE
The final moments of her life. Marie-Françoise lay crushed under tons of rubble.
The fish she had been eating was still in her mouth.
Her eyes would not open.
She could sense the darkness that encapsulated her. She could not feel her body, as though during the fall, her soul had slipped out and lay waiting for the exact moment when it would disappear from the world.
Then her life, like a cloud, split open, and she lay motionless in a rain of moments.
The green telephone in her grandparents’ kitchen next to the plant.
She could feel the cool plastic of the handle and the sensation of cupping it under her ear. She could hear a voice at the other end of the line that she recognized as her own.
The weight of her mother’s shoes as she carried them into the bedroom.
The idea