A mandatory meeting was called on the terrace above the gift shop. Despite the sunshine and finely arranged plants, Angel could sense the news would be bad.
The amenities manager Yuma stood on the edge of the roof terrace, Once …
The decor choices of Sam’s Other Self were incomprehensible to her. The kitchen looked like it had been scrubbed clean by a loving hand. A tiered basket laden with potatoes and shallots hung from the ceiling, while fresh fruit sat …
The dog stands in the front yard, his white fur turning red and yellow in the August sun. He moved into the house last month. In our one conversation, he’d explained he was the first member of his family to …
Ralph is picking fruit flies from his wine, the red one that tastes like cupcakes. His weird long pinky nail is a scoop. At least they died happy, he says. We are in that space we love to be together, …
Vernon Powell turned on the television, sat in his favorite chair, and started looking for a show he liked. He memory-zapped his ten favorite channels, but there was nothing interesting. Annoyed, he settled in better and kept looking. He went …
From the moment she said “I do,” Annette prayed it would get better. But when that hope dissolved into hopelessness after nine years of marriage, she decided to leave her family on a Thursday.
As she sipped her morning cup …
“Let me tell you what I do if I get frustrated,” my new friend Alex sipped his coffee at the only café in town. “This might sound weird, but I take a break and I go look at snails.”
“That’s …
What do I know of the mother who left when I was two? Bank teller, smoked like a chimney, twenty years a disco queen, and a pet duck named Mrs. Peterson.
What did she gift me? Drop-in visits I can …
Em is tempted to unwrap the little one’s head to show the baby to the cleaning cart woman, but she notices her nametag – Constance. Constance is an ugly old-fashioned name.
Three people enter the elevator squeezing past them, but …
I am a car that needs to be jump-started.
For every short trip to the grocery store, or to the post office, or to pick up my kid from school. A soul that just needs that jolt out of despair …