Nosebleed

by Rosanne Dingli

An entrancing seduction, in which everything seems to shift. An ageing artist's fascination with a young woman he meets in the rain, and his power to draw her up into his studio, seem spontaneous. Is she risking everything to feed her curiosity? This macabre yet sensual short story is about paint, wine, rain, light ... and blood.

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2011

About the author

This author's latest release is Pledges of Loyalty, the latest in the Denisthorn Hall series.

Rosanne Dingli has authored fifteen novels, six story collections, five novellas, and her collected poems. She has had numerous articles, stories, reviews, columns and poems published Australia-wide and on the internet since 1986. She has worked as teacher, lecturer, workshop coordinator, magazine and corporate editor, travel consultant, cook, manuscript assessor, heraldic artist and business partner. Originally from Malta, she has travelled widely in Italy, the UK, Turkey, Greece, South East Asia, Holland, Belgium, and France as well as most Australian states. She lives in Western Australia with her partner Hugo Bouckaert, Belgian GIS expert, biologist and philosopher.


Books:

According to Luke
Death in Malta
Fascinating Trickster
The Hidden Auditorium
The White Lady of Marsaxlokk
Counting Churches - The Malta Stories
All the Wrong Places (poetry)
The Astronomer's Pig
The Day of the Bird
How to Disappear
A Funeral in Fiesole
The Frozen Sea
The Cartographer of Venice
A Place in Society
A Suitable Husband
Maids and Mistresses
Pledges of Loyalty
Petals & Pages
Vertical Hold
Two
The Geography of Solitude
Chance and Necessity: A novel of Narrogin and Williams

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the village an reclusive artist lives and a young girl finds herself in his cottage one rainy evening and not sure how she got there or why. He controls her but doesn't know why she is attracted to him. She is definitely attracted but really doesn't know anything abut him. After a violent Nosebleed it ends with a cliffhanger? It has lots of emotion but little plot development.

[mountainmama · Rating 5 out of 5]

A young woman finds herself in an artist’s studio – unsure how or why she has ended up there. The artist is very mysterious, cryptic, and his actions are unsettling, but she finds herself being seduced, almost as if she has no will to resist. When she starts to realize and uncover some of his secrets, is it too late?

Beautifully written, Rosanne Dingli has created an eerie, sensual, and disturbing short story. She is a fine wordsmith who effortlessly sets the mood and seduces the reader just as easily as the artist persuades Marie. A truly superb read.

[Lynn Hallbrooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

I met Rosanne Dingli on Amazon's Discussion boards.

This is a Short Story with a horror movie feel to it.

Marie was drawn into his studio. Was it curiosity or was it fate? The artist's mood was uncertain and she was scared but didn't know why.

Ms. Dingli has a way of setting the scene that makes the reader feel as though they are there in the shadows watching and waiting to see what will happen next.

[Brenda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm afraid I didn't really enjoy this book, and I had hoped to very much. It was very strange, with an odd ending, one I didn't really understand at all.