The short fiction of j hardy carroll
In the extensive rewrite of The Ruining Heaven I am taking the opportunity to catch all variety of technical errors that riddled my first few drafts. As often as possible, I rely on research materials such as direct interviews with veterans (now almost impossible, because the the novel is seventy-five years ago) or interviews. Best…
A story is based on an experience of Susan Travers, the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral who became a driver of French Foreign legion general Marie-Pierre Koenig, the only woman the Legion ever admitted into its ranks.
For years, Ray badgered Christo and Jeanne-Claude to barter a piece with him. He sent dozens of works of mail art, a large collage. There was never a response. One day on his porch he found a brown paper parcel bound with white twine. The US Postal Service mailing label was lettered in neat block…