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Muted Fragrance: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781972750025
Publisher: Rosewood Publisher
Published: Jun 4 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Some loves do not resolve. They accumulate.
Muted Fragrance is an intimate literary collection of short stories and poems about love, memory, distance, and the private details that keep a person alive inside another long after a moment has passed.
Across Los Angeles, Tuscany, Cape Cod, Oregon, New Mexico, and the quiet rooms where desire becomes memory, Cory and Bella move through years of friendship, longing, separation, reunion, and unfinished devotion. Their story is not told as a traditional romance, but in fragments of fiction, prose, poetry, and recollection, where a train station goodbye, the smell of someone's hair, a shared meal, a slept-in bed, or a hand held at the wrong time can carry the emotional weight of an entire life.
C. Wheldon Prinzo writes with a lyrical, sensual, and deeply interior style, tracing the ache of timing, the pull of place, the vulnerability of intimacy, and the strange way love can become both home and exile. These stories and poems explore the kind of connection that does not end cleanly, the kind that changes shape into longing, art, memory, and the need to keep speaking to someone across oceans, years, and silence.
For readers drawn to literary fiction, short stories, love poetry, prose poetry, emotionally driven fiction, and reflective writing about desire, place, and human attachment, Muted Fragrance offers a tender and searching portrait of love that is unresolved, unforgettable, and still alive in the details.
Intended for adult readers.
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