River of Rats, Part One – Clichy-sous-Bois
Short Story It was early summer when Joanna and I arrived in Paris. The spring rains had just cleared and left behind a reflective sheen on the old cobblestones. Everything had a sort of misty...
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River of Rats is serially published story about a couple and its dark struggles through the streets of Paris. This page is home to all River of Rats chapters.
River of Rats, Part Two – Aux Folies
We spent a month at a bookstore in the old Latin Quarter of Paris. The old shop had a long history of allowing aspiring writers to bunk there as long as they worked a couple...
River of Rats, Part Three – The Bridge
We woke the next morning in the bookstore, pale and ill, my head in a vice grip, my left arm swollen and sore. Joanna’s hair in knots and mascara smeared all over her face,...
River of Rats, Part Four – Voleur!
The summer came and went in a heavy gossamer haze. We spent days walking up and down the Seine and around the city and we often sat on the tip of the Île de...
River of Rats, Part Five – Pigalle
I don’t remember ever talking about it, or how a decision was made. But one night, we jumped the turn-styles at the Pont Neuf station- because we didn’t have money even for that- and rode...
River of Rats, Part Six – We Are Always Hungry
Serial Fiction Story She went back. And I went with her and sat on the same bench while she leaned on the same wall on the same corner. She didn’t have too, not as...
River of Rats, Part Seven – And Everything
Serial Fiction I woke with a start. How long was I asleep for? The sun was coming up and my bones felt brittle with frost. I had slumped off the bench and fallen to...
