Miss Emily Grierson

Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

Challenge 190 ~ A rose for Emily

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A ROSE FOR EMILY William Faulkner

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Created for : Challenge 190 A rose for Emily

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On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of

Miss Emily’s father.

They rose when she entered — a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain

descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a

tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what

would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated,

like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost

in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump

of dough as they moved from one face

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