There was a beautiful woman in a headscarf thing. She came from a land I had never heard of, a region of the world I had never dreamt of.
I was all eyes.
“Nadine,” she said, holding her hand out and offering me a shy smile. Her hand was warm and dry, and I did not want to let it go. I thought of what her mouth tasted like, and caught myself staring at her at moments during the entire time she was there.
I led them into the kitchen, embarrassed because Sarah’s coughing could be heard all over the house. It had reached a jarring pitch.
All The Things We Don't Discuss is a genre-bending literary gothic novel with a missing person at its core. If you like magic realism, unreliable narrators, 19th century Gothic, dreamy slipstream type stories, and mysteries…you’ll like this. Maybe. You can read chapter 7 here, and read the entire book so far from the beginning here.
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