SHORT STORY. 3000 WORDS. FIRST DRAFTED: SEPTEMBER, 2018.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE MARK LITERARY REVIEW (US). AUGUST 1, 2021.
Isabelle died under the watchful eyes of more than nine hundred hedgehogs . . .
When I said goodbye to life at sea, in 2017, I’d never seen Little Free Libraries before – a great idea in principle. There are more than a dozen within at twenty minute walk from where I now live on Courtland Avenue. I wanted to write a story about using them to communicate & came up with this idea. As one of the only stories I’ve written from more than one point of view, it was tricky to write – it took more than a year and a half. Finding a publisher took equally long but I always liked this fractured love story about two people normally excluded from our concept of romance.
Courtland Avenue 