The Chestnuts
Natalia Testa“The Chestnuts, an old-world residence of great charm…”
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Endurance Square (1931)
Octavia Kingsley, all of twenty-one years of age, continued to drag her carpetbag up the staircase. She was neither an exceptionally weak nor strong woman, but rather average—still the five floors of the apartment building were beginning to...
In the Treehouse
Hello, all. I hope you are doing well.
I apologize for being MIA on the letter-writing series since May; things got crazy, but I’m hoping to continue with it in the upcoming months! I did a lot of traveling this summer and have only now s...
A Birthday Search
The prequel to this short story is published on my Substack, here.
Fair autumn had come, crisp and cool, to London at long last, settling its crimson veil across the verdant trees of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park.
The sunshine of Octob...
Fantastic Letters and Where to Find Them
In this journey through tradition and preserving things of the past, there can be no avoidance of the epistolary form, and thus I believe it is time enough that letter-writing is featured on The Chestnuts. This is part of a new series which...
Lost & Found
This short story1 was originally published in the Summer 2025 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine, available here.
The light fell, dappled, upon the spines of the antique books which lined the walls, casting long veiled shadows in the flat. Ch...
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Aspiring classicist obsessed with all things literary, medieval, and Lord Peter Wimsey. Known to my closest friends and family as Pat. I write essays, just-because articles, and pieces of short fiction.
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