Jean Pickering | The Sun Magazine

Jean Pickering

Jean Pickering lives in London, England. She’s on sabbatical from California State University-Fresno and is working on a novel. Two of her stories are about to appear in Queen’s Quarterly and The University of Windsor Review.

— From January 1986
Fiction

The Smell Of The Vineyards

Luz lived with her mother and sister in the Raisin Capital of the World. In September, when the grapes were drying between the vines, the whole valley smelled of wine.

January 1986
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