The Thing Itself
Gilded PleasuresA character-driven serial about a contract marriage that worked—and what remains when it ends. An observational, slow-burn story told through shifting perspectives.
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Chapter Sixteen
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Adaeze had been looking at her sketches of the weld and woad for ten minutes without writing anything.
It had been two days since her visit to Villa Casorio. Amadou had not asked about it. He had been working in sil...
Chapter Fifteen
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Vessa left Ferrante Glassworks in the late afternoon, her bag weighted with a shallow, felt-lined box of neatly arranged samples.
Ferrante’s business was flat glass — windows, lenses, the fine clear work that had ma...
[Update] Ardenia, Altina, and Velleia
On names
When I began writing The Thing Itself, I made a deliberate choice to leave the setting unnamed. The country was to be a vaguely Mediterranean-/Italian-inspired nation called the country. The provincial city where the story take...
Chapter Fourteen
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Gravel gave way to packed earth where the path bent east. After that, it was only the sound of their steps and the insects and the warm country on either side.
When they had parted ways in front of the guild hall a...
Chapter Thirteen
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The Conte told Signora Sera the day after the guild exposition, which meant that by the following morning the entire staff had heard the news.
The villa would be receiving a guest. A personal guest. From the Malenda...
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[she/her] I write code for a living and fiction for fun. The Thing Itself is my literary fiction serial, while my profile hosts sporadic posts about writing and whatever else comes to mind.
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