Word-At-A-Time-Blog

Morose sat in the subway, annoyed. He was late for work, and the car was stopped between stations. “Mint?” asked a lady standing beside him. She was dressed in a black cocktail dress, with a matching purse and shoes. She wore sunglasses and held a mint between her teeth. “Uh, no thank you…” said Morose, … Read more

As he sat sipping café au lait on the Champs–Élysées, Monsieur Guy Flaubert engaged in his favourite pastime; that of hating people. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees, this was the perfect milieu from which to “regardez” and “detester tout le monde.” “Tout le monde” could not miss him, either, … Read more

Across the plains to the west, heat lightning dragged prying fingers across the heavens, sending peels of harbinger thunder pondering towards the city. Shafts of light exploded upwards into the night sky, stamping a shimmering white cross into the ominous silver clouds; the Sign of The Cross. From the nondescript, supposedly abandoned basilica at the … Read more