GOLDEN FRUIT 1
A story of a man who let his mistress ruin his life
This is part 1 of my first fiction. It’s about Otto (rich and stupid) and Nina (beautiful and malicious). Otto loves Nina. Nina loves money. Otto throws his family away for Nina. Nina uses Otto. Otto regrets everything, gets into a fight with Nina. He dies a laughable death in the struggle. I’d stop here if it weren’t so devilishly fun to tell the whole story:
The room was bound by two sets of French windows on either end, thinly veiled by white muslin embroidered with violets so that the pale light passing through imprinted florette shadows which danced on blank walls and shut eyelids.
Nina was lying in a kimono on a spinach-green chintz sofa, feet crossed at the ankles, one arm behind her head and the other stretched out to the side so that the tips of her fingers could barely tickle the bowl of peaches on the bamboo tea table. An open book was pitched like a tent on her stomach, rising and falling gently as she breathed and stared at the ceiling,…