There was a guy in a suit, big and fancy, a round silver piece on his watch chain that had to be worth at least five dollars all by itself just hanging there like it was nobody’sbusiness, and he was walking along Minnie’s piece of street like there was nothing to worry about on such a fine, fine Manhattan morning.
Fifty Silver Bells and Nine
It was one of the house-party days, the ones when Alex pretended he had a grand salon, a modern-day Algonquin Round Table with himself firmly in the role of Dorothy Parker. Becca had come by, and Sadie, and a few of the old crowd from college and the new crowd from the gallery, before Alex had had to quit. Thom’s role on days like this was, generally, to keep the food coming and provide the occasional set-up lines for Alex’s wit.
Après nous le déluge
“I feel like a stupid American,” Ben says, staring up at the glass pyramid in front of the entrance to the Louvre.
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by Anna Katherine Originally published December 2009. “Anna Katherine” is the pseudonym of Anna Genoese and Katherine Crighton; this story is a prequel to the Door-world book SALT AND SILVER, 2009; a flash background piece about one of our side characters. Enjoy! ============ She grew up being told that her mother had wanted to name her... Continue Reading →
Katherine Crighton 