The images are grainy, the figures move jerkily across the screen, the angles all wrong. But it’s him alright. There is no doubt about that.
“You sure, you wanna see this?” the detective asks me. He tastes this poison every …
Summer, 1995
The last of several strokes put my mother in a nursing home in Flushing, Queens, where my father’s constant visits and meddling in her health and welfare unnerved the aides, the nurses, the therapists, and the entire managerial …
I never imagined I’d speak at a friend’s funeral before the age of 21.
Her death caught me off guard, though maybe it shouldn’t have. I stood behind the podium in that small Lutheran church, staring into a sea of …
Buffy walks among the mourners, oblivious to the Brooks Brothers men, women in patent leather Ferragamo flats determinedly correct yet gossiping about the funeral, second-guessing about The Will. They had grown old together. Buffy, always an enigma, still energetic, plain, …
They joked about it all the time now. Well for the last couple of years anyway since it suddenly dawned on them that they were both old now and soon would be dead. Joking about it was their way of …
It’s essential to remain as calm as possible in these situations. The more excited you get the sooner it will be over – in a bad way that is – as your organs shut down, one by one. My teeth …
The first home I made for myself was in Italy. I had come there for my senior year of college with the intention of remaining after I graduated and seeing if I could turn myself into a writer. I had decided …
I’m carrying so many bouquets I can’t even open the door to my old beat up car. My boyfriend Max rushes to help me, and we laugh as I dump the flowers, adorned with ribbons and cards, into the back …
It was the late 1940s in Elmhurst, Queens. Our neighborhood was all-white, although a moderate walk from 55th Road would reveal one or more black families living on a hill with a nickname I cannot write all these years later. …
I wear my wedding dress every day.
Mama filled me each day, carefully to the top using her special funnel. I slept on a glass shelf. As my lot in life, I didn’t mind but when I got married, things …