Jessica Wyss

Her memoirs were found on a table, one of the four pieces of furniture Barbin owned. Her writing was the last word on her “bizarre and double existence.” To the…

….). Like all of his previous works, it contained many fine descriptions of Highveld storms, and the gnarled, shining white corpses of lightning-struck trees. His books were not as popular as they had once been. There was something a bit funny about his latest one, especially. It was too obviously nostalgic for the early eighties, too wistful for a time when the …

…e flower beds, and we lay on the floor in the living room and talked and talked. Not about anything important. Conspicuously not about what I was going to do next. We talked about people we knew. We talked a lot about why they irritated us. We told each other how great we were ten or fifteen times a day. We agreed that toast was the most pleasing food to have a…