Isabelle Audiger is a 62 year-old, published or self-published poetry and fiction writer, born in Normandy, France. In a previous life, she taught French and English in Canada, the UK, as well as France. Since 2011, she’s been writing, consistently and stubbornly, poetry, youth or adult novels together with short-stories, in French or in English.
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| Publisher | Serving House Books |
| Publish Date | December 21, 2025 |
| Pages | 166 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781947175839 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.0 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
A recorded reading by John Muro on the 3rd Wednesday YouTube Channel.
You learn to apologize before the water reaches the steps.
It’s a small skill at first: a tightening in the chest when someone else’s voice sharpens, a preemptive softness in your tone. You say I’m sorry, the way other people check the weather—automatic, preventative. You watch for changes in barometric pressure inside the house. You can feel it in the hinge of a door, in the way a cabinet closes too hard, in the pause before someone exhales.
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Lauren Kelley is a writer of flash fiction and creative nonfiction. Her work explores inheritance, place, and the quiet systems people learn to survive inside. She lives in Minnesota, where she writes and tends a small, unruly collection of animals. More of her work can be found at unreliableonpurpose.com.
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