Fantasy Magazine, February 2011 by Fantasy Magazine

Author:Fantasy Magazine [Fantasy Magazine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Short Stories
Publisher: John Joseph Adams
Published: 2011-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

September 18, later

I think Jean-Baptiste is right, and the miserable weather is exerting an unpleasant influence on my nerves. I woke moments ago from a most disconcerting dream.

I was standing on a beach of gray stones, and as each wave rolled in it stained the rocks a different hue—powder-pink and eggshell-blue, cream-yellow and sage-green. The water felt warm against my feet, over my ankles and up to my knees. I bent and spread my fingers in the prickling foam.

Suddenly, I caught Violeta’s scent mingling with the brine—the smell of lavender soap, the sickly-sweet tinge of sweat. I looked up from the stones—they were dark colors now, crimson and cobalt and golden as egg-yolks—and turned to my wife, my heart pounding beneath my tongue.

The woman beside me was not Violeta. Her black skin, her red lips and gown, her left eyebrow lifted in vague amusement . . . it was the woman from the portraits.

I woke a moment later to the chiming of a hundred clocks.

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