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October 29, 2015
Chapter 5
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A NEW EDEN
Chapter 5
Other than the pilots and a personal assistant, only two passengers were aboard the private jet. Of the two, the professor wasn’t the one whose family name was on the title. As the craft descended on its southerly approach, he glanced across the aisle to the heir to the Hale empire.
Aaron Hale was trim and tall, with a firm jawline, high cheekbones, oaken hair swept a...
October 28, 2015
Excerpt Wednesday . . .
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The next morning, after a palliative second visit to the bagel shop, he spent the day in another of his old haunts. All he had ever needed to do was to walk through the doors of the Met to have the world and his problems disappear.
Aaron joined him after lunch, having concluded his day’s business that morning. They explored the museum’s rooms and wings, enjoying the artworks separately, coming together before the occasional piece as tutor and student again, sharing observations and thoughts on the esthetics, techniques, historical context, the intended theme—when such could be identified. Standing before other works, they would say nothing at all, but simply contemplate, enjoy.
They were into their third hour, having drifted apart again, when he noticed that Aaron had stopped in front of a painting of two nubile young lovers sitting on a swing in a forest. The composition was that of reclining masculine line and pressing feminine curve, the accepting and the accepted, the longing and the longed for. The girl’s arms were flung around the boy’s neck. The boy was gazing into the girl’s gaze adoringly. She was spooned into him, lost in his adoration of her, in her eyes a boundless desire and expectation.
When a group of fifth graders schooled around Aaron some minutes later, their docent became visibly annoyed at his not giving way, but he remained rooted to the spot. Harris waited nearby, giving himself over to studying the work’s sister piece, two spaces removed, a depiction of another pair of young lovers, running through the wild together ahead of a threatening storm....
October 23, 2015
Chapter 4
ReadGenesis, Part I of Idolatry…
A NEW EDEN
(Note: Contest alert! I’ve intentionally left an errant homophone in this chapter.See my Facebook pagefor contest details. Five winners get a signed copy of “A Prelude to Pleasure.”)
CHAPTER 4
They finished lunch in silence, remounted the horses in silence and rode on in silence, following the path east. When they came out on a two-track road, Paige again nudged her mount alongside.
“If you don’t mind,” she asked, “what is Passion...
October 16, 2015
Chapter 3
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A NEW EDEN
CHAPTER 3
At precisely eleven o’clock the next morning, the front desk called to inform Paige that she had a visitor in the lobby. She ran the brush through her hair twice more and checked her makeup. When she passed the housekeeper in the hall, she greeted her brightly.
“Buenos dias, Maria.”
“Buenos…” The housekeeper blushed in surprise—it was the first time the woman in Suite 117 had spoken to h...
October 11, 2015
Chapter Two!
October 9, 2015
Chapter 2
A New Eden, Part II of the Idolatry series, is the continuation of an epic tale told in five parts. InGenesis, Part Iof the series,set in the twilight of the Roman Empire, a sculptor struggles to keep an 800-year dream alive while honoring the love of his life and raising his adoptive son.It is highly recommended that a reader first enjoyGenesis, Part I of the Idolatry series before reading the continuation of the story here in Part II, A New Eden.
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A NEW EDEN
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October 1, 2015
A New Eden, Part II of Idolatry, now available chapter by chapter...
http://quentcordair.com/2015/10/01/ch...
“Santi Banesh was a sultan’s dream of dark olive skin an...
“Santi Banesh was a sultan’s dream of dark olive skin and burnt-umber eyes, deep almond pools that could drown a man. The long loose folds of her traditional wrap tried to hide her body, but her enchanting eyes, slender hands, the rise and fall of her chest and her graceful, sensual walk only made the robe work contrary to its intention, its overt defenses posing a rude challenge to imaginations which proceeded to lay waste to its veiling walls. Imaginations can be thorough beasts: Santi had...
“Santi Banesh was a sultan’s dream of dark olive skin an...
“Santi Banesh was a sultan’s dream of dark olive skin and burnt-umber eyes, deep almond pools that could drown a man. The long loose folds of her traditional wrap tried to hide her body, but her enchanting eyes, slender hands, the rise and fall of her chest and her graceful, sensual walk only made the robe work contrary to its intention, its overt defenses posing a rude challenge to imaginations which proceeded to lay waste to its veiling walls. Imaginations can be thorough beasts: Santi had already been ravaged by hundreds of men, though she was still a virgin and only fifteen.
“And now, just as her body was straining for perfection, it was starving. A third day without food and it was screaming. Everyone had said that after two days the hunger pangs abated, and for most girls they probably did, but her insides had set up a protest which had started about an hour before the first missed meal and had only escalated since. She had always been a healthy eater anyway. Her mother scolded that she would turn into an elephant once she bore children. But Santi’s body burned more brightly and hotly than most—it needed the food—and it found this deprivation unforgivable. . . .”
While traveling with her family to New York, the daughter of a third-world diplomat makes a life-altering decision during a layover in San Francisco. A favorite among Cordair fans, this short story was first published in the 1994 summer issue of the Atlantean Press Review.
Chapter 1
A New Eden, Part II of the Idolatry series, is the continuation of an epic tale told in five parts. InGenesis, Part Iof the series,set in the twilight of the Roman Empire, a sculptor struggles to keep an 800-year dream alive while honoring the love of his life and raising his adoptive son.It is highly recommended that a reader first enjoyGenesis, Part I of the Idolatry series before reading the continuation of the story in Part II, which begins below.Part I is available here. . . .
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