The scuff mark on the baseboard was Emma’s doing. She had practiced her flower girl walk so many times, down our narrow hallway and back, that the paint at the […]
The six-inch incision along my left flank burned like a brand beneath the stiff fabric of my discount navy dress. It was late November, exactly sixty-three days since a surgical […]
I was fastening my grandmother’s earrings when Natalie burst through the door. She did not knock. That alone told me something. Natalie had been my cousin and closest friend for […]
The locker room was already loud when she walked in. That particular kind of loud that belongs to groups of men in confined spaces before a hard training session: lockers […]
The woman at the window had grown practiced at stillness. She stood in the same position she had stood in for years, looking out at the yard where the same […]