The first time I saw Chetachi after she moved into our house, she was in the backyard, brushing her teeth. Even through the toothpaste foam, I could tell she had a gleaming white set of teeth.
‘Hi,’ she mumbled, looking …
Five Twenty
Marco turned the key in the ignition. “Click.” Just a “click.” The car didn’t start. He checked the transmission in “park,” the brake pedal depressed, and turned the key again. Again nothing. A dead battery. Marco pounded the …
‘I am going to kiss you so hard you’ll never forget it,’ Rod announces as I leave his yard to go home for dinner. I smile uncertainly because I want to be polite and because Melanie and a few other …
They met through a mutual acquaintance, a photographer who had a knack for bringing people together. “You’ve got a lot in common; I think the two of you would hit it off.” Though she’d heard that line before, she was …
I never thanked my stepdad for nudging me off course when I already had one foot on the fast track to ruining my life. I didn’t even know what he was up to before it was too late to undo …
It was a Friday night and I just came from work, the door to the sitting room was closed and from outside the house I saw that the light was on but I just assumed that County Boy was having …
Cassandra’s Unisex Hair Salon and Psychic Palm Advisory occupied 700 primo square feet in a renovated strip mall fronting Columbia Pike just minutes from the Pentagon and a nine iron shot across the Potomac River to the District of Columbia. …
Harry sat at the table with Evie sipping his mint tea as he did every morning. Three weeks had passed since the funeral, but he still felt her presence and talked with her as though she were there beside him. …
Bessie sneezes, then wipes her nose with a tissue from her sweater pocket. The work is a lot of what she expected, boxes to open and sort through, although more often now she only peeks inside to name where the …
George lends me a book about the Czar of Russia and his family and how they get shot in Ekaterinburg, every last one. He seems to think tragedy is good for me. “That Robert Massie. Look what he achieved, and …