Frances Riddle
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Photo by Joelee Creative / Stock.adobe.comIn this excerpt from a classic Argentine horror novel, something sinister visits a bathing woman in her new apartment. “The high heels! The high heels!” When…
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Photo by Ehud Neuhaus / Unsplash.comTime is an assassin. There are days that occur in the past. Today, for example, a January Monday in 2019, the sky stretched out like a blue sheet. Yesterday I saw a…
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What Is Lost Can you picture the Argentine pampa? Flat fields, eucalyptus trees, a seemingly inoffensive landscape where a gray sunset might use your boiling blood to paint a path st…
- New York. Ballantine Books. 2022. 319 pages. ISABEL ALLENDE OPENS her novel Violeta with a quote from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and…
- Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2017. 105 pages. The central concept of Bodies of Summer is a good one: what if, after death, your consciousness uploaded to the Internet, where you cou…