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    Domestic Landscapes
    Domestic Landscapes
    Domestic Landscapes
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    Domestic Landscapes

    By Melissa Paultre

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    Domestic Landscapes explores the many facets of relationships: the happiness, the pain, the loneliness and the eroticism.
    In verbal snapshots, it immortalizes, as pictures often fail to, the fleeting moments and momentary emotions that couples are subject to.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 22, 2013
    ISBN9781479706006
    Domestic Landscapes
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    Melissa Paultre

    Melissa discovered books at the age of six and writing at the age of seven. Always encouraged by her parents, she followed these two passions without hesitation. At thirteen, she wrote her first poem and never looked back. Under the tutelage of countless teachers, professors and famous poets, she carefully perfected her craft. Today, she uses her words to craft verbal snapshots and immortalize the fleeting moments in her life.

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      Domestic Landscapes - Melissa Paultre

      Copyright © 2013 by Melissa Paultre.

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      Contents

      Chapter I: And then… They met

      Chapter II: The blossoming of love, the birth of passion

      Chapter III: The slap of reality

      Chapter IV: The lingering death of love

      Chapter V: The struggle to forget, the fight to move on

      Epilogue She reflects

      CHAPTER I

      And then… They met

      A flash of light

      A gleam of hazel

      A forbidden kiss

      A stolen heart

      Hazel eyes

      1.   Royal Arcadia Palace

            (The night before Thanksgiving 2004)

      A flash of light illuminated his pupils

      Hazel,

      So different from my boring dark brown.

      He was looking

      A few stares,

      Slow winks,

      A flash of tongue on glossy lips

      He was mine.

      Do you want to dance? he asked

      On the floor he pressed me against him

      Such a man!

      My lips were not to be given to another

      He took them

      His tongue plundered my mouth

      His hands holding my neck

      A sneaky hand

      Traveled under my shirt

      No, No, new friend.

      Not tonight.

      The smell of your skin

      Your

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