in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...

It’s Tuesday night, and I’m alone at the bar. I always come alone. It’s the perfect place to people watch: college kids playing dress-up...

Here in south-central Alaska, winter seemed to drag on and on. Deep cold hung with us into March, snow fell almost daily from December...

When I awoke that day, I remember the faint sound of the cuckoo clock downstairs. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Doing. Doing. Cuckoo. My mother...

How to explain what I saw in you? My ego so tenuous in those lost, middle years, Everything sugarcoated, just to survive. You lived in a...

George had dozed off into a fitful moment of unconsciousness inspite of the consistent sound of the shelling. He awoke with a start,...

When my husband Bob surprised me with a near end of pandemic get-away to Honolulu I was beyond thankful. “Yes, I’m in!” I blurted with...

The thrift shop is packed with treasures and I spy the Easter lilies… flat in a basket on the glass top of a lighted cabinet. They’ve...

At almost 22 years old, I wasn't used to guys who were invested in my orgasms and never tried to get away without using a condom. My love...

She craved connection. To be in control and free of pain, God, she craved to belong. She prayed for release and summoned strength from...

Small-eyed, small-eared, a mole perched like an ace of spades on one eyelid, a mastoid-depressed void behind one of those ears, pale of...

In grade school we'd stare at the clock, the minute hand marching relentlessly, indifferent to our questions: How could a minute last so...