l'amour

From a selection of undergraduate English majors’ creative writing assignments for ‘Introduction to English Studies,’ taught by Dr. Beverly Rilett at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we at Fleur d’Araingée Publishing Co. have gathered the flowers we have found to be the most beautiful. The pervasive, ever-changing nature of love is the theme that ties our bouquet together. In our collection, there is not only the touted love of the 14th of February, but all flavors of love: platonic, familial, and intrapersonal, as well as romantic. Many of these short stories align with more than one of these flavors, as love is not a bland dessert; each layer plays its part in the evolving cycles and seasons through which love guides us.