6 published stories
At Lycée Saint-Aubin, scholarship student Élise Moreau is framed for cheating on a chemistry exam she never saw. As the whispers grow and her future hangs by a thread, the sweetest lie may be the one that saves her—or destroys everyone she loves.
Élise Vasseur, a widow of forty, has lit a candle in her window every night for ten years. When the new tenant across the street, Anton Moreau, turns out to be the mirror image of her dead husband, Élise is dragged into a web of lies that began the night of the fire that killed him.
After their mother's sudden death, three estranged siblings return to their childhood home in rural Ohio. They have 72 hours to clear out the house before the bank takes it. Inside, they discover letters their mother wrote to each of them every year on their birthdays — letters she never sent. Through these letters, buried secrets surface, old wounds reopen, and the three siblings confront the devastating truth about their family's collapse. A deeply emotional story about love, regret, and the things we leave unsaid.
Elena Rossi, 67, spends every evening at her kitchen window watching the neighborhood she has known for forty years. Since her husband's death and her daughter's move abroad, the window has become her only connection to the world outside. When a young immigrant family moves into the house next door, their struggles and kindness slowly begin to thaw the ice around her heart. A tender, heartbreaking story about loneliness, aging, unexpected friendship, and the quiet dignity of being forgotten by the world.
When a woman anonymously confesses to a hit-and-run 15 years ago, her husband discovers it was his own brother she killed. Now he has to decide: protect the wife he loves, or give his parents the closure they have been begging for.
The wind on Runde Island never truly stopped. It was a living thing, a constant companion that whispered through the cracks in the old lighthouse keeper’s bones.
