An Exception / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza was awake most of the night, believing that he heard Fermina Daza’s voice in the fresh river breeze, tending to his solitude with her memory, listening her sing in the respiration of the boat as it trundled on with the same steps of a big animal through gloomy darkness, until […]
I Had Dreams / Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“I had dreams—wonderful visions—” She pressed the palms of her hands into her eyes. “I saw bronze rivers lapping marble shores, and great birds that soared through the air, parti-colored birds with iridescent plumage. I heard strange music and the flare of barbaric trumpets—what?” Amory had snickered. “What, Amory?” “I said go on, […]
