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Xavier Léon Auguste

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The Unfinished Sonnet - Charles Baudelaire - August 31st, 1867

Submitted to Contest #304

Many years have passed since I have read the works of de Nerval or even thought of him. Today though, I walked home from an early breakfast at the café that’s run by an old Roma couple on the corner of my street. It was at a time when our labors had surpassed the successful career of Romanticism’s founding father to be deemed by academic institutions, literary reviews, and, most importantly, the informal conversations of the fine art’s aficionados as “all the rage of Paris.” Delacroix, where were you when he needed you? De Nerval had hair th...

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The Water Sprite of the Old Neighborhood

Submitted to Contest #282

Once Hall the fisherman had finished casting his two nets, he sat on the bank of the small tributary of the River next to his friend Phi. As usual, she refused the coffee he offered from his thermos. That morning, nostalgia overcame him and so he felt like speaking with her about the past fifty years he had lived in that isolated area of the city.The last ten years had seen great changes in the small neighborhood. There was still a small clientele that was loyal to the family-run store. They would regularly stop in to buy a bottle of water o...

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