Tyler proposed to me in an airport. This is relevant because everything about our life together has some relationship to airports, to the specific quality of those spaces and what […]
A squirrel sat on a branch above me and stared like I owed it rent for encroaching on its territory. My back throbbed in that particular way that felt less […]
The hot tub had been sitting covered and unused for almost four months when our neighbor Lisa knocked on the front door and told us to keep the noise down. […]
My mother-in-law offered to watch our three kids for a week so my husband and I could finally celebrate our tenth anniversary. I thought it was the nicest thing she […]
The year I was born, my parents named me Elena, which means light, and they named my sister Vanessa, which means butterfly, and if you knew our family you would […]
The debt came to me on a Thursday. Julian called from his office at six in the evening, which he sometimes did when something required what he called a real […]
“She needs to be sanitized before she goes back in the water.” Marjorie Whitaker shouted it across the pool deck like she was announcing an outbreak, her voice cutting through […]
The garage door opener groaned along its chain track above my head while I knelt on the cold concrete floor, pressing strips of blue painter’s tape into careful straight lines. […]
My name is Mira, and I am thirty-five years old, and I have spent most of my adult life believing that the distance between me and my family was geographic. […]
The smell reached me before I opened the back door. That particular sweetness of decomposing plant material, hot and fermented in the July sun, the kind of smell that works […]