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I guess we all stopped listening to what we didn’t like. You could turn down the volume and cut...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Nov 12, 2024 | Chronicles |
I guess we all stopped listening to what we didn’t like. You could turn down the volume and cut...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 21, 2024 | Chronicles |
It was a much larger apartment than she had expected, with soothing walls of creamy stucco. A dim...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 20, 2024 | Chronicles |
Amira learned how to affix photos to the readied passport pages, a more demanding process with...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 19, 2024 | Chronicles |
Sylvain wished them luck and told them they could find him in Westwood, where he had an apartment...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 18, 2024 | Chronicles |
Their weekly meetings, which grew increasingly lighthearted, went on for a year. Then, one day in...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 17, 2024 | Chronicles |
On a rainy Friday when the city seemed off balance, they took Sylvain to lunch at Musso and...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 16, 2024 | Chronicles |
His sadness brought to mind rustling leaves, a long-ago autumn before something had carved a slice...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 15, 2024 | Chronicles |
Caroline and Francine immediately understood what Amira meant. Sylvain was indeed delicate. His...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 14, 2024 | Chronicles |
“From what little I know of Sylvain, he is an extraordinarily delicate man,” Amira told them. “He...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 13, 2024 | Chronicles |
On Fridays Amira, Caroline and Francine drove downtown and dropped the passports off with...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 12, 2024 | Chronicles |
Amira fell into a routine that allowed her, with little or no self-imposed pressure, to create the...
Read MorePosted by Paul Talbot | Sep 11, 2024 | Chronicles |
They knew him as Ramon. He sent two of his men up to Los Angeles every day and each drove a car...
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