The Porter's Muse

By KyleeliseTHT

Isabelle Lamberton loves her philandering father but loathes her long-suffering mother. Time blisters as the woman must care for the man who’d terrorized the City, killed her father, yet saved her life. “The Porter’s Muse” is a short story that tugs at the boundaries of difficult truths and a woman’s journey through these entanglements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: KyleeliseTHT
• Release date: Jan 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311541697

KyleeliseTHT

Kyleelise is a Yankee by birth and a southerner at heart. She was educated at South Central Community and Albertus Magnus colleges and Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has worked as a researcher/writer, print journalist and editor, and producer. Kyleelise writes mostly fiction, now, from her home near the Gulf of Mexico, where she lives with her family. You can learn more about "Kyleelise the fiction writer" at kyleelisetht.com.

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THE PORTER’S MUSE

KyleeliseTHT

Copyright 2015 by KyleeliseTHT

Cover Art by TMNK aka Nobody

Design by Toccarra Thomas

Cover font Penshurst by Paul Lloyd

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THE PORTER’S MUSE is a work of fiction

Cover art by TMNK aka Nobody

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

About the Author

Dedication

For Ted

and

For Mildred

and

For Josephine

I thank my mother, Sarah L. Holmes, for bringing to me the beautiful Muse. Thank you, Susan Letzer Cole, my teacher, mentor, and catcher of all typos for breathing this sentiment into my soul:

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue;—William Shakespeare's Hamlet (3.2.1–3)

The Porter's Muse

Chapter 1

Bomber who Terrorized City Dead at 90

Dateline—May 23, 1994

Man responsible for explosions detonated throughout the City in the 1940s and 1950s, during a reign of terror provoked by a denied injury compensation claim, has died.

I used to be that little girl over there. Yes, the one sitting next to the handsome Army Private. They're not together. He's too young to be her father and not perturbed enough by her