The inaugural issue of Orca is out, and my story "Alien Corn" is among those published in it.
From the middle section, I steal back these lines, transported once again to Italy—
She felt absolved, somehow relieved of guilt and obligation, by the loving welcome of the skeletal old cat in the dark of the late October garden near the Arno, between convent and blue palazzo with its quiet tribe of long, distinct Modigliani faces Adrian would show her the next morning. She'd been undone by the lake air, she told herself again, kneeling beside the open window, open shutters in her room over the garden where somewhere the spirit animal padded through herbs, gave chase to dreams.
image: Orca Literary Journal, Issue 1
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