Beginning ~ in the shadows

Opening lines of the first story:

I wait in the shadows.

My cello is already on stage.  It was carved in 1723 on a Sicilian hillside where the sea is very quiet.  The strings vibrate when the bow is near, as though anticipating their lover.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories ~ by Simon Van Booy, 2009, fiction

On the verge of giving up — anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives — Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

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