Francis Rosenfeld is a novelist and multimedia storyteller whose work explores society and human connection through fiction. To learn more about her work, visit STORIES by Francis Rosenfeld, or subscribe to her newsletter - The Margins on Substack.
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Rachel: Reading from Between Mirrors - Grandfather and the Storm
The rain started so suddenly Claire barely had time to get in from the porch and close the doors behind her before the downpour delivered a deafening drum solo on the roof. Claire’s grandfather was rushing through the house, as he used to do under these circumstances, closing up doors, windows and shutters and making sure everybody was inside, safe from the storm. The young woman smiled, tracking …
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Rachel: Reading from Between Mirrors - Ritual
When she was about six Claire started wondering what had happened to her parents. She tried to ask her grandparents about them, but they got so upset with her that she cried for days and decided never to bring up the subject again. Children tend to believe that everything that’s not right with the world must be their fault and adults will be mad at them for it and stop loving them, and Claire was …
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Rachel: Reading from Between Mirrors - Memories
“Get out of the doorway!” The words boomed like thunder in Claire’s ears, now almost thirty years later, with the same intensity and pronouncement they carried the first time she’d heard Grandmother utter them, the first time of many. She smiled vaguely to the memory. It was vast, this mansion of her grandparents where she had grown up, but Claire didn’t know it at the time; she never questioned …
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