She was convinced that everybody leaves behind a cemetery.
Hollow rooms of silence and suppression beneath grasslands.
Or guilt and heartache and burning memories without peace.
Objectified people and names, buried and absorbed, out of touch.
She cut the cords and her life grew back into her body, forcing her
Lips to form a careful smile as a battle of voices besieges her brain.
She stares at her unfamiliar eyes and wants to shove her head into
The cold white sink. The body of a skinned fish, the flesh, the ocean, the
Continuity of life despite death. She tried to find her own echo in the oval
Basin. Become material. Detached. Hard as porcelain. Unblemished. Not
Asked to contribute, to participate in everything that is simply not her, never.
And she remembers her mother’s kisses that turned to stone on her cheeks.
“Woman’s Head with Red Bun” by József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927)
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
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