Apples: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
()
About this ebook
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy has written more than a dozen works of fiction (including Night Came with Many Stars and The Presence of Absence) and is the editor of three volumes of philosophy. Raised in rural North Wales, Simon currently lives between London and New York, where he is a volunteer EMT for Central Park Medical Unit and RVAC. In early 2020, he rescued his first mouse.
Read more from Simon Van Booy
Night Came with Many Stars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sipsworth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Apples
Related ebooks
The Cat's Pajamas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Chronicles of Rebecca Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Silas Marner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eldorado Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Head Of Caesar And Other Stories: “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBroken Wings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House of Mirth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRose in Bloom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFive Little Peppers Abroad Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Tragedy of the Korosko Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life Was Simpler Then Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAtlanta's Iconic Ape: The Life of Willie B. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMcMullen Circle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncle Abner, Master of Mysteries: A Collection of Classic Detective Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jungle Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Women of Magnolia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaising Wrecker: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5THE LITTLE DOLL'S DRESSMAKER - A Children's Story by Charles Dickens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDavid Copperfield Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Importance of a Piece of Paper: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Lady of Quality Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Awakening Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ordinary Grace: by William Kent Krueger | Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Man Jeeves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trigger (Damien Hill Thriller Book 1): Damien Hill Thriller, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Palace of Art Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rio Linda and Elverta Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Short Stories For You
Hot Blooded Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Explicit Content: Red Hot Stories of Hardcore Erotica Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sex and Erotic: Hard, hot and sexy Short-Stories for Adults Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don Quixote Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Tales of Mystery and Imagination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Selected Short Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Tuesdays in Winter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sour Candy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Years of the Best American Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Scorched Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovecraft Country: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower: And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Crew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Past Midnight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Apples
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Apples - Simon Van Booy
Apples
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Simon Van Booy
To Maddie
Contents
Begin Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
APPLES
As night unraveled through the streets of Brooklyn, the sign outside Serge’s shoe repair shop glowed. The red neon burned through evening and into early morning. Anyone pacing the city, anyone lingering in the palm of a streetlight could not ignore the dazzle and low growl of bright gas pumped through tubes like blood in the shape of letters—a promise to all who passed that certain things never need go unmended.
Below the neon sign, Serge’s display consisted of several pairs of shoes whose owners had never returned. Serge had painstakingly reconstructed them into sullen models of their former selves.
Under a shelf of dusty Russian magazines was a broken chair for customers to wait while Serge hammered, glued, and stitched. The smell of glue was often overpowering, but it was a thick, fragrant odor that hypnotized customers into waiting quietly in their socks.
The broken chair would not have supported the full weight of a person, but by some miracle had remained intact, beautifully ancient, with one leg suspended an inch above the carpet, as though