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Merry Christmas (Story by Risa Peris)

December 24, 2018 periswriter

The sea was both silver and green and rippled in the weak sunlight. Light snow was falling and I watched…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Folklore, History, Holiday

Harmonize (Story by Risa Peris)

December 22, 2018 periswriter

My heart was broken. Cracked like old paint on a wall. I was in Florence, Italy and Marco had left.…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

The Actress (Story by Risa Peris)

December 19, 2018 periswriter

The Cannes Film Festival was better than the Oscars as it gave me an excuse to leave LA. People think…

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Posted in: Fiction

The Music (Story by Risa Peris)

December 17, 2018 periswriter

I could hear music. Phantom music. Music in the background like a soundtrack. It was never perfect or melodic. It…

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Posted in: Folklore, Romance

The First of the Month (Story by R.C. Peris)

December 15, 2018 periswriter

By the first of the month, December, the month of sneezing and shopping; you had moved your cracked, stretched suitcase…

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Posted in: Fiction, Holiday, Romance

The Jacket (Story by Risa Peris)

December 12, 2018 periswriter

I bought the jacket at a second-hand shop in Cannes. The movie festival had ended and the city was emptying.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

The Red Period (Story by Risa Peris)

December 10, 2018 periswriter

It was Picasso’s Blue Period. The stretch of time between 1900 and 1904. All his paintings were blue or blue-green.…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

The Ghost (Risa Peris)

December 8, 2018 periswriter

It’s been happening for some time. I’m on the Rock in Monaco and it’s the changing of the guard. From…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Cannes (Story by R.C. Peris)

December 6, 2018 periswriter

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of…

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Posted in: Fiction

Clean (Story by R.C. Peris)

December 3, 2018 periswriter

She was clean. She felt it. Warm and reassuring. Like when you hold a hand over a candle flame. Yes.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

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