When nineteen-year-old Faby attends the annual Vaudeville Show in her small town, she is hoping to escape to the drudgery of day-to-day life in the Gauthier household, where chores are watched over by the critical eye of Maman and Maman Aurore. The year is 1924, the setting small town Vermont, USA, and even though she’s […]
Easily swayed, my imaginationfollows lines, dreams of new horizons spins and traces unknown spaces speculates about what might have been… (For Lens-Artists Challenge: Leading Lines)
“Be careful of the habits you make,” my father used to lecture, cigarette in one hand, whiskey in the other. “They will either make of you a slave or a master.” Of course, I had no idea what he was talking about, and I hated that his sermons were always: “Do what I say, not […]
Sibling love is strong,
Through right and wrong
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It can be.
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some great images!
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Thanks – love how these turn out (at times)
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I was like, “Don’t say he’s dead, don’t say he’s dead,” the whole time I read! It made me really like the siblings, and I’m impressed at how you were able to forge characters in such a short space!
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Thank you. This was forged from magnetic poetry, although the characters are pretty true – my brother was elevated to angel in my mother’s eyes. Always steamed me, lol.
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I like this V.J. – so much below the words that those of us with sibs get on many levels
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That rivalry thing is quite universal.
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absolutely – it pulls us down or pushes us forward
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