Trio Farewell, Jeanne
World literature today,
09/2018, Volume:
92, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
A backbiting violin section, duettists whose honest feedback to one another is less welcome than first thought, and a tuner who sets a pianist on edge: in this trio of short fictions, musicians' ...souls sometimes synchronize while tempers nearly snap.
Perhaps another resident would drive by, roll down a window, and challenge Poppy's right to be on the private road, and then she could inquire about the riddle of the rolling rock. Was the boulder ...placed by some indecisive landscaper who was trying different spots? A flip-flopping, head-scratching hardscaper? Curiously, though, several paintings were defaced with graffiti, and one was slashed. Amber sat across in a deformed armchair and put the wine and glasses on the millstone coffee table between them. Featured was one of the paintings that stood in the room, but without the ugly graffiti.
