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    How an Odd Stain on a Sidewalk in Russia Inspired My Novel

    St. Petersburg, Russia, How an Odd Stain on a Russian Sidewalk Inspired My Novel, Karen Hugg, https://karenhugg.com/2019/06/18/sidewalk-russia/ #Russia #StPetersburg #crime #blood #fiction #sidewalk #books #novels

    It was late afternoon in St. Petersburg, Russia. A cloudy day but warm. I was walking back to the inn where I was staying for a writer’s workshop through the Summer Literary Seminars program. Soon, I came to a strange dried puddle on the sidewalk and almost stepped in it. I had to take a wide turn into the street to go around. Red and crusted, about a two-foot-wide blob, I thought it was paint. I looked up at the line of apartment windows, wondering where the scaffolding or ladders…