So this is a bit of a long shot but there was short story in Women’s Magazine I read a long time ago.
It had a very profound affect on me growing up, its was one of my moms magazines (Good Housekeeping or something similar). I was around 1999-2000 and they were having a short story competition or shorty story exhibition.
This particular short story was about an English school teacher who gave up their job to open a small cafe in the French countryside. The crux of the story was that a writer came to stay in village over the summer and this writer and cafe owner entered into this dreamlike summer romance.
The twist was that throughout the story the writer had insinuated that the café owner was female and the visiting writer was male. At the very end of the story it was just casually mentioned the both were male.
There were many more details in-between about the summer romance. All I know is that reveal blew my mind and defo helped in my ‘awakening’ :heart:
Long story short I would love dearly to read that short story again but have never been able to find it :blushing:
Does it ring any bells with anyone else?
It had a very profound affect on me growing up, its was one of my moms magazines (Good Housekeeping or something similar). I was around 1999-2000 and they were having a short story competition or shorty story exhibition.
This particular short story was about an English school teacher who gave up their job to open a small cafe in the French countryside. The crux of the story was that a writer came to stay in village over the summer and this writer and cafe owner entered into this dreamlike summer romance.
The twist was that throughout the story the writer had insinuated that the café owner was female and the visiting writer was male. At the very end of the story it was just casually mentioned the both were male.
There were many more details in-between about the summer romance. All I know is that reveal blew my mind and defo helped in my ‘awakening’ :heart:
Long story short I would love dearly to read that short story again but have never been able to find it :blushing:
Does it ring any bells with anyone else?