Cardinal Sin: Vanity

by Caroline Gerardo

Her hair once was shining black, but now turning gray. Jesse has now passed middle age. Jesse relied on her physical beauty to get her past broken marriages and the pain of a poor and abused childhood. Jesse spent all the money she made as a runway model and finds herself isolated from family. She is dependant on a man she no longer, perhaps never, loves. The story is set around a beautiful fourth of July night in Laguna Beach. Jesse recalls her childhood, and the trip to Los Angeles with a coyote transporting her Mother and sister from San Salvador. She regrets her failure to return the kindness of her sister, the tenderness of her Mother.
A literary short story about a woman's own failures.

50 pages, ebook

First published December 9, 2009

About the author

Caroline Gerardo ( C. G. Barbeau)
lives in California and Wyoming. Caroline's last novel is The Lucky Boy.
Short stories, transgressional fiction, poetry, dark fiction
Member International Thriller Writers

Caroline's poetry and short fiction : Lucent Dreaming;
Olentangy Review; Midwestern Gothic Review, One Stop Poetry;
Sleet Magazine; Scapegoat Review;
Narrative Magazine; Negativesucks Magazine, and two Anthologies.

MFA Claremont Graduate University
BA dual major Art and Literature Scripps College

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