Status Updates From Secolo Nuovo

“Her eyes gleam when she breathes life to the flames and I take this moment to hold her body until our skin begins to sweat. I’ll keep my arms around her tonight, even when she’s asleep, and we’ll burn away the darkness together. I don’t care what she says. This pain does belong to me. It’s mine. I carry it home every night, just as it haunts me throughout the day.”

“In any case, my grandfather returned to a house filled with warmth and sighted. Josephine lumbered up to him at the doorstep, kissed his bearded face, and they disappeared into the bedroom where Antonio sang sweet songs to her belly.”

“Jeanne freed a dozen girls and fled with them to form a gang, swore off prostitution, affirmed their hatred of men, and lived like pirate queens, plundering the wealthy and making love together in their communal shack”

“When I look in the mirror, I see dark hair, green eyes, browned skin, but it isn’t me there, it’s my grandmother Josephine. I smell the sea, I hear Marisol laugh, and then she’s gone. It’s just me in the mirror.”

“The watery tubes had delivered her into a green bathtub filled with naked women where she gazed thru a cloud and beheld the future. San Francisco was the place she had seen beneath Les Diablerets. This was her city of water.”

“While nothing but breath, these words of mine are immortal”

“Now, today, I shall sing beautifully for my friends pleasure …. The fire inside my body didn’t come from nowhere. It was given to me on purpose”

This is fucking great.

Havent updated here in a minute so let me tell ya. Im at work reading not working. I have some loose familiarity with Fulvia, her mother, & the san francisco anarchists of 100ish years ago but im excited about this story and Im glad its starting out simply as a daughter completely upset with her mother. Couldnt ask for a more sincere way to hear fulvias family story.