Mary Miller is the author of a story collection, Big World, and two chapbooks of flash fiction. Her work has appeared in New Stories from the South, McSweeney's Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Oxford American, and others. Her first novel will be published in Germany next fall (and hopefully, one day, in a language she can read).
Was there ever a place greyer, wetter or lonelier than Paris in the fall? For an Irish person, that’s a weighty question to consider. I guess that in some other…