At sixty-seven years old, I never imagined I would end up sleeping on a cot beside strangers who had lost everything. But here I am, telling you about the three […]
I was still holding my coffee mug when she said it. We were in the living room of the house I had helped purchase, forty percent of the down payment, […]
Sixty Seconds She wore her uniform. She started a countdown. She did not wipe off the wine. The sound of crystal breaking against marble cut through the jazz quartet like […]
The wheel of my carry-on caught on a crack in the tile, and the jolt of it was what pulled my attention back to the physical world after the few […]
I never thought I’d see Marcus again. When I was seventeen, a drunk driver ran a red light and changed everything. Six months before prom, I went from arguing about […]
My grandmother’s hands shook in the last year of her life, but her mind never did. I want to say that first, before anything else, because the story I am […]
Aveline The apartment I lived in before all of this had creaky floors and a radiator that knocked when the temperature dropped. My kitchen window looked out toward the Androscoggin […]
The grocery bag hit the floor before I even realized I’d dropped it. Eggs cracked against the hardwood. Yellow yolk spread across the dark boards. Neither of them heard it. […]
Amelia My car is twelve years old. It has a dent in the passenger door I have never bothered to fix. My apartment near Fort Bragg has one bedroom, a […]
Covered My husband left on a Tuesday in October, when Jane was five years old. There was no screaming. No confession extracted through tears. No plates broken, no doors […]