Francophile

Winter, 2020

MAIS OUI, IT WAS AN AFFAIR FOR THE AGES— MIDDLE AND OLDTechnically speaking, he was old enough to be her father, but she’d always preferred a looser interpretation of things. Wiggle room, either/or, mucking around in the gray areas. Janey of the variegated existential guidelines. Prickle of his appreciative gaze, brief argument about the definition of variegated. An electric fence surrounded her memories of those days.He appeared only vaguely fatherly when he arrived at her door that May morning...