A Raven on the Panahuoca River

by Chantale Reve

Overview

(Adults only) Wracked by more than regret over being three letters short of double D’s, a dumped and dowdy woman grieves a love she once thought would last forever. She’s a pro at collecting antiques, including the stained glass shards of her heart, but an amateur at photography and romance.

Imprisoned in the past, she decides to take a nature break on hump day, ignoring the double entendre’s futility in her alienated existence. However, there’s nothing natural about the hamlet by the winding Panahuoca River. Stranger danger lies ahead. Ask yourself: Could it be in the form of a person, place or thing?

Get swept away in this Gothic short story of obsessive love and memory --a black lipstick kiss to Edgar Allan Poe’s indelible legacy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045464468
Publisher:	Chantale Reve
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	798,383
File size:	90 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Corporate robot by day, lucid dreamer by night, Chantale Rêve lives to express her thoughts on the human condition through erotic short fiction (especially erotic mystery and suspense stories) and poetry. She is inspired by and enjoys the creations of other artists—from novelists and poets, to dancers, musicians, visual artists and chefs.

Chantale is profoundly influenced by certain existentialist schools of thought, including Camus’ and Sartre’s; by the literature of William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kate Chopin, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, Alice Walker, Anaϊs Nin, Henry Miller, Philip K. Dick, Richard Burton Matheson, James Patterson, John Le Carré, Ian Fleming, among others; the plays of Tennessee Williams; and by the cinematic genius of Hitchcock; of French and Italian New Wave auteurs Truffaut, Varda, Bresson, Antonioni, Bertolucci and Fellini; and—from the African Diaspora—of Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, Spike Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Julie Dash and Ava DuVernay.

Chantale’s worldview continues to be shaped by her travels and by the images and messages in remarkable independent, modern and postmodern films—both past and present—from around the world.