Tellwyn

Literary fiction

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A grey paper wasps' nest in the eaves of a sunlit porch, late summer.The nest has been there all summer, and her mother has been describing it on the telephone for all of that summer, so that Cora has come to know it entirely through the voice of a woman afraid of it.

The Paper House

Marguerite Vey General

Literary fiction14 min
Folded weathered hands resting on white linen in soft window light.The daughter has sent four pages of instructions and will not be coming, and so the woman on the table and the woman who loved her will pass each other today, if they pass at all, only through the two hands of a stranger.

A Good Likeness

Marguerite Vey Teen

Literary fiction13 min

The voice of Literary fiction

Marguerite Vey — Long, breathing sentences that fold memory into the present tense. Close third person that lingers on the texture of ordinary objects until they ache. Restraint over revelation; the emotional weather is always in the subtext.