The Swirls Collection
The Swirls Collection includes stories about relationships, love, and the complexities of living with others.
Flawless
A story by Jamie Magness
He had a perfectly shaped nose, beautiful Tahoe blue eyes, a full and a pair of sensuous lips, and just the perfect stubble of a new beard. He was the consummate gentleman, considerate, compassionate, and loving. He was, in a word, flawless. More divine than human. A perfect representation of the gods.
Why, I asked, was he dead? What forces of fate made his motorcycle miss the curve and plunge nearly a thousand feet into Eagle’s Point Gorge? Flawless beings do not die the way we mortals do.
Dry Wheat Stubble
Beckie Blake was the kind of woman who married for life. Her strong religious faith only solidified her determination. She was married for life with three wonderful sons, and the most perfect husband. Then, one phone call changed everything.
“Mrs. Beckie Blake, I am Lisa Paternino and I am in love with your stud husband. He loves me too. So, we’re going to get married. He’s going to divorce you, so he can be all mine. He has such a great body. So warm. So sexy. I just love it when he touches me . . . .”
A love letter written in Berlin in 1945
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Martin
A work of philosophical fiction.
This fictionalized love story is based, in large part, on the romantic relationship between the political theorist and devoted Zionist, Hannah Arendt, and her university professor, the noted German philosopher (and avowed Nazi) Martin Heidegger.
Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism remains a major work of Twentieth Century political thought.
Heidegger’s seminal work, Being and Time, is often credited as the origin for modern existentialism.
Arendt met Heidegger when she was seventeen and he was thirty-five.
Story is in two parts.
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