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“Natasha’s Bedroom” by Robyn Carr
Card picked: Queen of Hearts – The last heart of the year!
From: David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination
Thoughts: Robyn Carr is perhaps the only non-speculative fiction writer in this anthology. She is, in fact, a writer of romances. (I’ll leave aside whether romances should be counted as speculative…) This has also been the sexiest story. Tasha is a painter and a recent widow living in Scottsdale, AZ. After months of grieving, she begins to paint a mural on the wall of her bedroom: her deceased husband standing amid a field of desert flowers. Unfortunately, the image of her husband never quite comes out right. In fact, it seems to shift and change to become a different man. Then one night, the man steps out of the mural…
Worry not. This is not one of those disturbing tales like Joyce Carol Oates’ “The Hand-Puppet.” Instead, it gives two lonely people connected by Tasha’s paintings a potentially happy future together.
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I know of Robyn Carr but have never read her. I know she has a lengthy series of “Virgin River” books out there that I discovered once when searching for material about the actual Virgin River that flows through one of my favorite vacation destinations in Zion Canyon. 🙂
This sounds like an interesting story, though.
As to actual romances being “speculative” … I’ve always thought so. 🙂
I love stories that blend art and “real life”. This one sounds great!