In Beziers, We Write Our Names in Dust

Murder, massacres, and the meandering path of time

Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters
Published in
7 min readAug 31, 2022

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Beziers, France. Photo by author.

The murder didn’t happen here

It was in St Etienne du Rouvray where teenage terrorists cut a priest’s throat. It’s a long way from there to here, long enough for the rolling green fields of northern France to give way to the wild wind and fierce sun of the South.

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Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com