Parapluie: A Fable
By WB Arnaud
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Description
You Remember What It Felt Like to Believe a Story Could Change You
Before books became content. Before you started skimming. Back when you'd lose hours in a world so vivid you could smell the rain on cobblestones.
That ache for enchantment—it's still there. You want prose that stops you cold. Characters who feel more real than your neighbors. A story where magic doesn't apologize for itself, where Paris in 1889 becomes more alive than the room you're sitting in.
Parapluie is 206 pages of that old feeling rushing back.
A city where umbrellas choose. A policeman who finds redemption in rain. An orphan opening doors to impossible places. Every sentence built to make you slow down, look closer, remember why you fell in love with reading in the first place.
Literary fiction readers and magical realism devotees already know: books like this don't come along often. The ones that trust you. That reward attention. That linger for weeks after you close them.
Parapluie. WB Arnaud. Old Shrimp Road Press.
Reader testimonials
“This is such an incredible and soul-satisfying story. I loved seeing all these characters' lives be transformed by something so simple yet magical, and all the more enjoyable set against the rich backdrop of old Paris.” — Robin F.
“Parapluie was an exceptional novella. The storytelling and narrative style are so poetic and lyrical, and i love how the words show, not tell. The descriptions are gorgeous, (“…and ivy curls around its windows like green lace,”) OH i can picture the ivy so clearly—I love this description so much that it’s stuck to me since i first read it in the beginning of the story.” — Sarah B.
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