She was leaning against a dirty wall, and blew out the smoke into
The blackened city. Her lipstick had faded away early in the
Evening when she kissed him to numb herself. She erred from one
Bar to the next, every step enhanced the emptiness around her. She
Was looking for someone to absorb her like she absorbed the dead ends
Of the city. She craved to put her face into a straightjacket to contain her heartache.
They all touched her and she smiled, nothing had ever been so hollow and
Unintended, sickening. Every single sensation evaporated over her skin.
There was no meaning, no intent, no value. She wouldn’t allow memories to be created.
He haunted her, she would inhale the cold air and feel him there, in her abandoned
Heart, travelling through to her sex, her desire, her need to hold him, to eat up his scent.
Every step she would take felt like a blow to her heart, to their story, to sealed off endings.
“Black-haired Girl” 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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