vanessa lafaye Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/vanessa-lafaye/ Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:26:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Short Story: A Simple Mistake https://booksbywomen.org/a-simple-mistake-short-fiction-by-vanessa-lafaye/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-simple-mistake-short-fiction-by-vanessa-lafaye/#respond Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:08:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14319 The dome of an umbrella bobbed along the top of the fence, beneath the dripping horse chestnut branches. Pink, blue, white stripes. Childhood colours, an adult’s height. It had been raining for days, maybe weeks. Lots of umbrellas bobbed along her fence, but she recognised this one. It was him again. Cynthia wheeled herself into […]

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