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Half a Lifetime in Paris, and Counting by Donna Alice Evleth
Audio & Video

Musical Vignettes to Whet the Appetite

Posted on April 24, 2022May 23, 2022 by Gary Lee Kraut
24
Apr

The launch party/reading for The Paris Vignette also included musical vignettes featuring Manu Terreo on guitar.

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Posted in Audio & Video  |  Tagged musical vignettes, Argentina
Fiction

A Girl and the Moon

Posted on March 22, 2022June 23, 2022 by Catherine Cain
A Girl and the Moon by Catherine Cain
22
Mar

She had fallen asleep to the moonbeam lighting the darkened lake, threading a silver ribbon across her bedspread. Now it was daybreak and thirteen-year-old Lilly awakened to the trilling of the marsh wrens and the call of the loons,

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Posted in Fiction  |  Tagged Water and Sea, United States, Family, Adolescence 1 Comment
Fiction

Molly at Sea

Posted on March 14, 2022June 23, 2022 by Gary Lee Kraut
Molly at Sea, GLKraut
14
Mar

I wonder how a writer would describe what I see while standing in the tall grass on cliff’s edge. The girl below, in the boat, would have a full paragraph devoted to her blonde strands twisting in the wind

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Posted in Fiction  |  Tagged Water and Sea, Writers, Ireland
Nonfiction

The Best Boulangerie

Posted on March 11, 2022June 23, 2022 by Alice Evleth
Croissant Paris The Best Boulangerie Alice Evleth
11
Mar

A simple yet power story about social (non)distancing in the Covid era and the choices we make in the post-lockdown period

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Posted in Nonfiction  |  Tagged Paris, Food & Drink, Neighborhood
Nonfiction

War Stories: Dawn in the Normandy Landing Zone

Posted on March 9, 2022June 23, 2022 by Gary Lee Kraut
Normandy beach, war stories - GLK
09
Mar

I was woken by the rain at 6:30 a.m. Except that it wasn’t the rain; it was water drizzling into the room from the ceiling.

In a moment of veteran-like panic I had a flashback to one year ago when…

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Posted in Nonfiction  |  Tagged Panic, Normandy, France
Nonfiction

The Stained Glass Window

Posted on February 22, 2022June 23, 2022 by Alice Evleth
The Stained Glass Window
22
Feb

Every day while walking my dog through my Paris neighborhood I glance into the living room of a ground floor apartment through a stained glass window, with a pattern of roses, pale yellow and deep red, with rich green leaves. The window is a little beauty mark in an otherwise utilitarian dog walk.

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Posted in Nonfiction  |  Tagged Paris, Animals, Neighborhood
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