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In "Et la douleur en fit un homme," Tessa journeys from South Africa to England after her father’s death, seeking refuge with her aunt. Though she’d written to stay with her fiancé, she soon realizes he used her for his own advancement—then, heartbroken by his engagement to the boss’s daughter, she reconsiders and accepts her aunt’s invitation. But when she arrives, she finds her aunt has married and is on her honeymoon. The story, illustrated with quiet intensity by Miguel Poveda, captures a moment of profound displacement and quiet reckoning.
In the sweltering heat of a Guyanese voyage, a devoted nurse and a vain doctor find their lives entwined aboard a doomed ship. As an infectious outbreak spreads and a storm-driven collision strands them on a drifting lifeboat, their fragile truce is tested when the doctor’s wife needs urgent surgery—leaving the nurse to face a crisis neither expected.
In "Mon pays ç'est toi," Tessa leaves behind a broken engagement and a betrayal in South Africa, seeking refuge with her aunt in England—only to arrive just as her aunt’s wedding has begun. The story unfolds with quiet tension as Tessa navigates a foreign country and a sudden absence, her journey marked by longing and the fragile hope of belonging.
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