Contributions by Eva Marer
Eva Marer (1969 – 2009) spent her childhood in Bloomington, Indiana. Daughter of a German mother and Hungarian father, she grew up navigating three cultures. Graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, she was an accomplished journalist covering finance, fashion and women’s health issues for Vogue, Marie Claire, Self, Worth and Health. Her first love was always fiction. An excerpt of her posthumous novel-in-stories, Pleasure, was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the literary magazine Open City. The full collection will appear in book form in 2013.
The German Lesson
Eva Marer
The German teacher lived on a street of towering trees. Their weeping boughs stroked the curb, leaving sun-dappled green tunnels you could walk through. Birds flitted through the wheel-wells of cars, which seldom passed but stood parked for hours like sentries guarding their owners under house arrest. A dog barked, a child shouted; their voices—birds and children—warbled across the occasional buckshot of a car backfiring on a distant block.
Into the silence Mimi’s sobs echoed. She cried and clung to the door handle of the blue Volkswagen bus. The crown of her head was no higher than the top of the hubcap. She twisted and writhed, kicking the tire in protest. She didn’t want to go to the German lesson. She wanted to carry on and do exactly as she was doing: inertia.
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