July 27, 2026
Unrequited Love - a short story that takes place on Ibiza
Unrequited love The morning has progressed, it’s around noon and the heat is sweltering. Not a drop of rain has fallen...
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Stella
Jansen
Novelist · Poet · Storyteller
An Amsterdam-based novelist whose debut novel The Unforeseen traces the lives of three women across two continents and several decades — a story of adversity, windfall, and the grace of unexpected closure.
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The Unforeseen
A novel
Cibelle grows up in the sun-drenched countryside of Oaxaca, raised by her grandparents and gifted with an artist's eye. Her mother Eisa chases fame in Los Angeles, only to find that true love arrives and vanishes in the most unexpected ways. And Solana, the grandmother whose voice once filled the nightclubs of...
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Stella Jansen
Stella Jansen is an Amsterdam-based novelist and poet whose debut novel The Unforeseen was published in 2022. Her second novel, Facing the Music, is forthcoming.
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July 11, 2026
Excerpt from Facing The Music, a novel in progress
CHAPTER VIII SERRATO (STOCKY, HURRIED) The Rosebud offered little in the way of charm or innocence; perhaps only the tender age of some of its hostesses and dancers—mostly...
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