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Kenneth Weene
Category:
Literary Fiction
Publisher: Red Chameleon
ISBN-10: 1502759284
Type: Fiction
Pages: 231
Copyright: 2014
ISBN-13: 9781502759283
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
Three tales of New England that combine traditional literary fiction with speculative.
The Stylite is a tale of love, family, and betrayal.
Mothers' Teat is a story of a dysfunctional family and the decision a young woman must make as to whom she will kill.
Hansom Dove is speculative fiction at its most terriffying and most sensual.
Excerpt
This is a house built on deep regrets, filled with dreams and forgotten loves. Rough-hewn and lumbered, it sits by the brook. Overhead list a wisp of clouds—perhaps an angle;'s breath, a granted wish. It is day's end. A red sun sets; its pink illuminates the scattered clouds. He knows tomorrow will come again with all life''s bromide of praises. Putnam Williams know, yet does not believe.
The porch swing needs an oilcan and protests his weight with screens and moans. The breeze from the stream shivers him. Or, perhaps, it is the love that he has lost.
Jeannine had come into his life so suddenly, a chance—encountered not in idyllic spender by streams or berry-ing on mountain slopes, not in the rain of a sweet spring day huddled under one of those magnificent maples, elms, or oaks. No, they had met in produce, melons squeezed in hand. How symbolic, he had died with that night's dreams, reaching for her sweet Tuscan cantaloupes instead of breasts that perked his senses and rose the thorn of love desired then and still.
Breasts she had, and hips, and thighs. A mouth carved by Michelangelo—ah, its sensuous touch. And Leonardo's smile lit her lips. A nose so fine that only gentle spring flowers seemed appropriate. Fingers to match, delicate, long, designed for music and for making love. He could in longing, moaning memory still recall every aspect of her youth and wish them into sight, touch, scent, taste, sound.
But most and finally of all, those breasts.
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