The bathroom mirror was still fogged when I reached into the vanity drawer for my bracelet. My hand found Q-tips. A half-empty tube of hand cream with the cap not […]
The first thing I heard was the sound of my house being taken apart. Not the birds that usually greeted me on the drive up, the red-winged blackbirds that worked […]
The cake had thirty-two candles on it, but nobody was looking at the flames anymore. They were looking at my grandfather. Ellis Hutchings sat two chairs down from me at […]
The first thing to disappear was the back wheel. Not all at once. Not with a dramatic crack or a Hollywood splash. It sank slowly, almost politely, into the black […]
My sister pushed me into the mud on my wedding day, and for one second I actually thought the worst part was the ruined dress. I was wrong. The worst […]
The Gold Digger Part One: The Education The first time Vivian Prescott called me a gold digger, she did it with a smile. Not to my face. She would never […]
The truck ran the red light so fast I never had time to scream. One second I was driving home from Owen’s pediatric appointment, mentally listing everything I still needed […]
Two Heartbeats At my niece’s first birthday party, I stood in my mother’s dining room with one hand on my stomach and told my family I was pregnant with twins, […]
The Blinking Eye a story The sound tore through the penthouse again at half past two in the morning, and Solange heard it before she was fully awake. She had […]
The Sunroom The call came on a Tuesday afternoon while I was sitting at my desk reviewing marketing reports, the kind of ordinary moment that exists only so you remember […]