Reading Time: 8 minutesOne cold bright day in April, Margaret looked out onto her farm and saw the future in her pigs. Not ham nor bacon for them, she vowed, but something more befitting the fancy French names she’d given them in the little French she misunderstood. There went Hautain, the thinnest and snootiest of the lot, his…
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Girl In Some Cafe, Dreaming
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe war was far enough away now that the two soldiers could pass their mornings inventing the lives of others. They sat at the rear of the café, feet up, hats down, whispering their inventions to each other upon the arrival of every new patron. “A great romantic,” Sasha said, as a big man with…