What the Ocean Knows A Story About Love That Arrives After Someone Is Gone, and the Things We Leave Behind Let me tell you about my father’s hands. They were […]
Daniel Mercer was quietly cutting his daughter’s chicken into small pieces when he felt someone standing over their table. He didn’t look up right away. He was concentrating. Sophie liked […]
Seat 34A “I’d like to change my seat, please.” My grandmother said it very quietly. Politely. The way she says everything. She was standing at the gate counter at Boston […]
The room was so quiet I could hear the air conditioner humming. My fiancé, Kevin, stood in the doorway of the bridal suite in his navy wedding suit. He was […]
“Mrs. Walsh, why did you choose seat 34A?” I was standing in the aisle of the airplane beside my grandmother when the pilot asked her that. He was young, maybe […]
“Would you cook for me like this too, Andrew, if we were married?” My sister said it with a glass of wine in her hand, leaning against my kitchen counter, […]
Pretend You’re Still Asleep When I opened my eyes, I didn’t know where I was. The ceiling was white. Not my ceiling. My bedroom ceiling has a water stain in […]
When I opened my eyes, I didn’t know where I was. Everything was too white and too bright. Something was beeping near my head, slow and steady. There was a […]
At my sister’s engagement party, my mother pointed at me across the room and laughed. “Oh, and this is my other daughter. She cleans floors for a living.” My father […]
“You owe your brothers a future.” My mother said it like a verdict. Then she slammed a folder down on my conference table so hard it skidded half a foot […]