The Second Half of My Life Part One: The Turkey on the Passenger Floor My name is Diane Mercer. I’m sixty-three years old, and until last Thanksgiving, I had confused […]
The morning my mother called me a freeloader, I had already paid her electric bill, her homeowner’s insurance, and most of the groceries sitting in the refrigerator behind her. She […]
Everything for Love Part One: Thirty Minutes Four days before the phone call, Raymond Cole stood at his kitchen counter counting money. It was a little after eight on a […]
The Box on the Altar Part One: The Night Before I was hours away from marrying Oliver Pierce, the man I loved. Our wedding was set for four o’clock the […]
My cap landed in the dust six feet away from me, and my left ear wouldn’t stop ringing. “Do you have any idea who I am, you miserable little woman?” […]
“We have a routine, Mom,” my son said. “The kids have school. Ashley works from home. It just wouldn’t work right now.” I was sitting in my wheelchair at the […]
Derek held the coffee can up over his head like a trophy. The whole American Legion hall went quiet. Two hundred people sat at the long folding tables in Spencer, […]
The Bluebird Card The first thing my husband’s grandmother did when she walked into our falling-down house was put her hand flat on the kitchen doorframe. She didn’t look at […]
I pulled into my own driveway at 11:40 on a Wednesday night with a grocery store cake riding on the passenger seat. Strawberry. Kaylee’s favorite since she was four years […]
Mark was handing me the pen before I’d even decided whether to take it. “This one?” I held it up in front of two hundred people who had come to […]