Linda Triegel

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“Andante con Moto” by Linda Triegel

Submitted to Contest #287

Andante con Moto            The young lady seated three tables away was very pretty, with a delicate foreign fairness that precisely suited the sunny spring morning. In the heat of summer, the air of Barcelona frequently takes on the consistency of the cafĂ© con leche the waiter had tried to tempt me with before I—much to his barely concealed disdain—ordered a pot of tea. Today, the Barcelona air more nearly resembled the bubbly glass of Perrier water from which the young lady took an occ...

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I started my writing career with a short story in Yankee Magazine, then got into Regency romances as well. i'm still doing both, and also published a cozy mystery. I began copyediting even before all that, as an assistant editor with Grolier.