Anne Raeff

Anne Raeff’s first novel, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2002 and released in Italian by Edizioni Spartaco in 2006. She just finished her second novel, Winter Kept Us Warm, the first draft of which was completed during a month-long residency at the Fundación Valparaíso residency in Spain. An excerpt of it appeared as a short story in New England Review. She is currently waiting tables at a fifth-rate Asian restaurant and working on a two books—a collection of essays and a novel.

Fiction

The Doctors’ Daughter

By Anne Raeff February 1, 2012

Guillermo kissed her and she was not afraid of his tongue and his hands on her body, and she wanted to stay with him all night, wanted to lie down on the wet earth, but he turned around and began walking back, pulling her behind him, and soon they were out on the road and the sound of the insects grew distant, and the trees no longer protected them from the stars.