“Life in the Snow” by Alain Park (fiction, ’13)
2016-17 Beebe Fellow Alain Park at his Warren Wilson campus reading, Oct. 27, 2016.
A story by Alain Park (fiction, ’13) appears in The Madison Review:
Life in the Snow
Kathryn was a twenty-nine-year old former artist and expatriate, a restless creature at one time prone to burning her old work though she hadn’t had to in years. She lived in Switzerland with a well-known clinical psychiatrist ten years her senior—the father of her unborn child and also a kind man she’d recently agreed to marry. They spent their time making thin pancakes on weekends and rearranging the smart furniture of his house, located on a mountain slope in the German-speaking region of the Swiss Alps, a wonderland of frost and sun and smiling people, a playground to Kathryn’s eye of healthy goodness and all that was right and handsome in the world. She’d come to love the penetrating light in the mountains, it filled her, the landscape solid and full at every turn, and yet at that moment in her life what those sights evoked most in Kathryn was not contentment, but rather a desire that her old friends back home should know these things as well. [ … continue reading here.]
