The Reappearance of Strawberries: 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 has written more than a dozen works of fiction (including Night Came with Many Stars and The Presence of Absence) and is the editor of three volumes of philosophy. Raised in rural North Wales, Simon currently lives between London and New York, where he is a volunteer EMT for Central Park Medical Unit and RVAC. In early 2020, he rescued his first mouse.
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The Reappearance of Strawberries - Simon Van Booy
The Reappearance of Strawberries
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Simon Van Booy
Dedication
To Maddie
Contents
Dedication
The Reappearance of Strawberries
Acknowledgments
An Excerpt from Tales of Accidental Genius
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
THE REAPPEARANCE OF STRAWBERRIES
Eight stories above the infamous rue de Vaugirard, the man in the ninth bed of the Bonnard Hospital ward had requested nothing but strawberries for several days. For most of that Tuesday afternoon all that could be heard were the tiny hands and feet of rain against the window.
While most of the patients disappeared into a medicated sleep, Pierre-Yves lay awake, aware that he was dying. Beside his bed was a bowl of strawberries that he was unable to reach out and touch. Whenever he imagined their sweetness, he remembered her and shuddered. They were piled up in a heavy yellow bowl.
Pierre-Yves breathed deeply in an attempt to bury the scent in his lungs, while outside on the street below he imagined taxis, filled with cigarette smoke, lunging between traffic lights. During his first night in the hospital, after falling over in a square populated by hundreds of pigeons, a memory brushed against him.
As light visits an attic through a