Alfred Sisley, a hardened old man, lives surrounded by his memories. He waits in silence for a sign from his one true, enduring love.
A meeting with Joey shatters this fragile balance. In him, Sisley recognizes the reflection of his own thirty years: an intimate resonance, an unexpected synergy.
Read the full summary →Encounters by Moonlight came into being in 2007, after nine months of writing, during a period that followed a long professional pause devoted to rest and reflection.
This suspended time allowed the author to return to what is essential, giving rise to an inward, patient form of writing—attentive to silence and deeply human.
The work is published under the pen name Simon Lero, chosen in tribute to a French ancestor who settled in America, anchoring this narrative in a memory both personal and inherited.