I feel like 2025 is my last chance (at everything)

Final post of the year + writing prompts, book list, etc.

Paris, 1925 The Dingo throbbed with a pulse that came not from any one source but from the smorgasbord of it all—conversation, jazz, and the heat of bodies pressed too close together under a low-slung ceiling that seemed to bow inward from the gravity of so much life. Smoke surged, alive and serpentine, pouring from lips and nostrils, mingling with the perfume of spilt brandy, crushed citrus, and the sweet rot of too many cigarettes stubbed out in crystal ashtrays. The Fitzgeralds, twice evicted from The Biltmore in New York City, were found at the bar tonight, the mister and missus…

related reading

• I feel like 2025 is my last chance (at everything)sherryning.com
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• On growing up and fading dreamslovelila.substack.com
• The Beautiful and Damned - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• The Moods of Ernest Hemingwaynewyorker.com
• Writing American Fictioncommentary.org
• Gertrude Stein - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• the paris diariessubstack.com
• In Search of Lost Time - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• Frank Sinatra Has a Coldrandomhouse.com
• The Great Gatsby - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• Fitzgerald - The Crack-Uplindaktong.github.io