Isabella lantry
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The Knock
It was a quarter past eleven when the knock came. Mr. George Henshaw had retired early to his study, as he often did, with a decanter of port and the evening paper. The fire was reduced to embers, the gas lamps casting a yellow gloom across shelves of leather-bound volumes. Outside, fog pressed against the windows, muting the small village beyond.
By Isabella lantry4 months ago in Fiction
The Two Selves of Beth Jones
The Two Selves of Beth Jones Beth Jones was twenty-five when she moved from Upstate to Manhattan. She told everyone it was for work. Her job in marketing had promoted her to the New York office, but really, it was to slip into another life, one she imagined more refined, faster, brighter. She could walk down streets lit in a permanent yellow glow and feel, for a moment, like she had become the woman she saw on glossy magazine covers: deliberate, ambitious, and leaning always toward the next opportunity.
By Isabella lantry4 months ago in Fiction
