French Riviera arriving on the Côte d'Azur. Edith Wharton wrote "The Age of Innocence" (1920) at a villa near Hyères, winning the Pulitzer Prize for the novel (the first woman to do so). Dancer Isadora Duncan frequented Cannes and Nice, but died in 1927 when her scarf caught in a wheel of the Amilcar motor car in which she was a passenger and strangled her. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald first visited with his wife Zelda in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo – eventually staying at Saint-Raphaël, where he wrote much of "The Great Gatsby" and began "Tender is
When It Ends, He Catches Her When It Ends, He Catches Her "When It Ends, He Catches Her" is a 2014 science fiction short story by Eugie Foster. It was first published on "Daily Science Fiction", on September 26, 2014—the day before Foster's death. An audio version (read by Tina Connolly) was subsequently made available via "Pseudopod", and the story was included in the 2015 "Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List". Before civilization fell to a plague of zombies, Aisa was a ballet dancer. Now, she spends her time in an abandoned theater, dancing on an abandoned stage for an imaginary