The cardboard beneath my back had grown soft from three months of body heat and occasional moisture that seeped through the Honda’s aging sunroof. I pressed my palm against the […]
Margarite There are tests you design carefully, in advance, with a lawyer and a legal trust and a worn-out Honda parked strategically on a suburban street. And there are tests […]
The House on Westwood Lane A Story The first thing I noticed was the light. It spilled through the high windows of the country club ballroom in long, honeyed stripes, […]
The voicemail from the hospital billing department arrived three weeks after I opened my eyes. I was sitting in my friend Deborah’s apartment, still moving carefully because my ribs protested […]
The Reservation There are small humiliations and there are large ones, and then there are the ones that are small on the surface but large underneath, the ones that wear […]
The steering wheel spun uselessly in my hands as my car careened toward the massive oak tree at forty-five miles per hour, brakes completely dead, and in that terrifying moment […]
The phone shattered the silence of my bedroom at 1:30 in the morning, dragging me from the edge of sleep with the jarring insistence that only comes with emergency calls. […]
The Replica There is a particular kind of laugh that isn’t funny. It arrives without warning, short and sharp, the laugh of a person whose brain has finally processed something […]
Before Five O’Clock There is a particular clarity that comes to a widow who has been patient for too long. Not anger — or not only anger. Something more organized […]
The Other Twin There’s a particular kind of invisibility that comes from standing right next to someone who is seen. Not the invisibility of absence — that’s simpler, cleaner, something […]