Frances D. Lawing

Romance Writer of Nineteenth Century Victorian Style Fiction of short stories and Poetry

About Frances D. Lawing

A writer of fiction/nonfiction poetry and Genre of Romance stories for audiences of all ages from eighteen to the age of lonely married women in their seventies and early eighties looking for a way of finding love through stories created from one’s imagination. She earned a degree at the New York Institute of Art and Design in Creative Writing in Manchester, New York. She also won Editor’s Choice Award for her work in poetry writing a poem called ”Is it Love, ‘in 2006 with the International Poetry Society and a paid trip to Los Vegas Nevada, and a trip to the Hoover Dam for her work. Her hobbies are gardening, taking long walks, and helping her friends to design and upgrade their homes with new colors, styles, and designs for them. She is a native of the deep Piney Woods of the East Texas area.

Works in Progress:

”Love on the Seine”

A short story of romance, a tale of love overcoming hurdeles of career and distance. Paris, with its timeless charm, provides the perfect backdrop for falling in love, in the most beautiful city in the world, where the Seine River gently flows, was a quaint bookshop named Les Mots du Coeur. Among stacks of love worn pages was where Juliette, a beautiful , passionate bibliophile, spent most of her time. Her life was filled with rourines of coffee, books, and occassional, glancesout the beautiful decorated window with its curtains of white lace draped back in order to see out into the passersby in the city on the busy sidewalks and daydreams about love that seemed as unreal to happen as the fictional story she read. Across the city, in a sleekoffice over looking the Eiffel Towe, worked the handsome, attractive, tall, dark-haired marc. he was dedicated and ambitious as a buisnessman, having a life filled with blurred meetings, contracts, and endless traveling. So, love was a luxury he could not afford, or so he thought.

Even though their worlds were miles of poles of the earth far apart,fate had its own plan for bringing the two together. A chance of having an encounter because of a misplaced manuscript was so out of context for him ever being brought together with the beautiful Juliette. Marc had wandered into the Les Mots du Couer one rainy afternoon seeking refuge and warmth as he began to get a chill. Perhaps he thought this was a nostalgic moment from his youth as he had spent most of his time in the pages of adventure novels.

Sitting in a corner of the cozy cafe, the two began sparking conversations that neither one realized were beginning to connect them. But as quickly as their romance began, it was threatened by the very things that defined them. Marc’s job demanded relocation, a move from Paris to London that would tear him away from the love budding like a rose in the summer that he found himself beginning to fall in love with Juliette.

Months passed, seasons changed, and winter began to find its way back into the city as the distance took its toll. Even calls became more infrequent, texts began to go unananswered, and the memory of their brief romance began fading into the distance. Yet somehow, the city of its glamourous lights and warm, inviting cafes had its own plans with its magic for lovers.

Their paths crossed again during the Fete de la Musique, one warm summer evening filled with melodies. There amidst the crowd he saw her, a vision with a book in her hand, reading aloud to an enchanted audience.

As their eyes met, he realized the story she was reading was theres, having the same connection they thought they had lost, only to find it rekindled. marc knew then that no job , no location, could keep him from the love they shared. He made a choice as he promised Julietteand himself that Paris, with her, would be their forever home.

And so under the Parisian sky, by the beautiful Seine River that had witnessed their meeting, Marc and Juliette found their way back to each other. Love had triumphed, as it had done so many times over time, in the city that masters the art of romance, Paris.

By.

Felicity Da_ Lockwood

(aka Frances)