Elle Campbell has an embarrassing secret. Whenever she feels stressed and overwhelmed, she locks her office, then plays 80’s music…
There’s something special that happens when someone tells you they love you (though I…
Harry Jacobs was bored. It was Saturday afternoon, and he had no plans. He had chosen not to have plans, and now it…
Monday
The smoky joy of a Kool cigarette is the mother’s milk that sustains me every morning when I awaken around 6 AM. If I can’t stuff that hot, sweet smoke into my lungs first thing…
A week before they leave, she’s lying on a yoga mat, waiting to start her first…
One morning, a man set up a scaffold on the north end of a very old house. He described the home as a fortress, held up by large…
“Hope” is the thing with…
I ran, and he ran next to me. I jumped across a branch. I lost him for a second in the bushes, but I could still hear the branches cracking…
Dearest Violet,
It’s been years since I talked to you. I know you have not forgiven me yet. I don’t…
As a preacher’s kid, appearance was everything. You dressed your best, and by best I mean better than everyone else. It…
I sat on the chair beside her, looking at her face. She was talking about her brother. He had died of lung cancer…