Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
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The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
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Some Bloom in Darkness - Simon Van Booy
Some Bloom in Darkness
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Simon Van Booy
To Maddie
Contents
Begin Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
SOME BLOOM IN DARKNESS
for Eugène Atget and Erik Satie
Since witnessing a violent incident at the railway station some months earlier, Saboné had not sketched a thing. He had not sketched the pigeons that dripped from the ledges of the Museum, nor had he shuffled through the Museum, where he liked to sit and watch people rather than paintings. Since bearing witness to the violent incident some months earlier, Saboné often became breathless with anxiety, as though he were the perpetrator of a terrible crime that he could not recall.
Saboné found a genuine pleasure in small things. He had lived with his mother in an unpretentious suburb of Paris until one day she died, and Saboné thought it best to move and make a fresh start. Since then, he