About us

 Did you ever wonder what Mona Lisa would be like, if Leonardo Da Vinci had not been a painter… but a writer?

What kind of adventures would she experience as being the heroine of a fairy tale, for instance? Would she be the very picture of innocence… or of evil?

And what if she were the fruit of Stevenson’s imagination? Could she be Dr Mona and Mrs Lisa?

For sure, she would not keep such a gentle and charming smile, trapped in a Stephen King’s novel… unless she had to play the dreadful role of a psychotic murderer…

If we just try to go beyond the usual frame, so many different lives, so many fragmented stories, so many patched tales may arise from any famous paintings.

‘Patched tales’ is therefore the name we chose to give to this brand new adventure we are about to share with you in our blog. One single picture may lead to multiple and unexpected tracks : follow us on those literary paths of creativity!

Who are we?

The four of us chose different tracks, too, coming from different places, living different lives. One of us comes from the Aude, one from the Aveyron, one from the Drôme, one from the Var. The youngest of us is 21, the oldest is almost 50.

Different and remote places leading us all to distance learning in the University of Montpellier, where we are all taking different courses, such as Modern Literature, Language sciences and modern Greek..

What rules us all? Reading! And writing the kind of stories that we would enjoy reading.

What kind of stories? Any kind! Dramas, tales, novels, poetry, historical or dystopian narratives, science fiction short stories, press articles, whatsoever!

Our favourite stories are 1984, by George Orwell, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Ubik by Philip K. Dick and the Northern lights, a trilogy by Philip Pulman.

We are all eager to start this new creative challenge altogether!