Edmund Robert Kowkabany

Shards of Ephemera Edmund Robert Kowkabany

Shards of Ephemera is a wry morality tale concerning the playful parting gambit of Tammy A, a gold-digging, thoroughly American adventuress whose life is about to be surprisingly changed when she bewitches a dissolute scion solely to gain entrée to his reclusive moneybags father. Parting, because at the ripe old age of twenty-four and after having already amassed riches beyond her wildest fantasies, this consummate femme fatale was beset not only by a vague languor, but to her rising chagrin the nuggets of gold she unwittingly, paradoxically mined of late were from a hitherto unsuspected or blithely repressed tender quarry within her own heart. Tammy was canny enough to know that once she started feeling anything but pitilessness toward her intended prey and purpose, she herself was doomed. And so she quietly retreated from her perilous world of intrigue and seduction. But then coincidentally one evening her curiosity was piqued by a drunken oaf babbling aloud, who turned out to be the disgraced heir to one of the country's grandest fortunes. Voilà, here was both temptation and opportunity impossible to resist, one final dare, a last hurrah! After much ado Tammy succeeds in captivating the illustrious patriarch himself, but what ensues is unlike anything she ever dreamed, a "collaboration" of sorts. Here, a saga of irony assiduously fabricated from shards of ephemera-all evanescent, tomorrow nothing.