Oysters and Quince
…. There are still more pictures to bradawl and hang: A Family of Basket Weavers are waiting at his feet. Tattered and rural, a poor family squats at a roadside. There's Gilda washing straw; Hedy and Lotte weaving. He, Virgil, hunches with back to the viewer, blackened toes clutching at the muddy earth…
by Trilby Kent
Trilby was born in Toronto in 1982. After completing degrees from Oxford and the LSE in history and social anthropology, she spent a year working at a London auction house - but soon gave it up to become a freelance journalist. She has written for Maclean's magazine, The National Post, The Globe and Mail (Canada), The African American Review and The California Literary Review (U.S.), and is a regular contributor to Brussels-based The Bulletin. She is currently working on a novel set between Ceylon and Flanders in the lead-up to the Second World War.