When she called that Sunday afternoon in late January, her father refuses to come to the phone.
They had traveled by bus to the border where her father in law had bribed an official into letting them pass. From then, they’d taken the…
She insisted on bringing extravagant bouquets of weeds and wildflowers to every family dinner.
After her first depressing year of living in the garage apartment of her son and daughter-in-law in a…
For sixty-eight years, she cooks three meals a day, first as her mother’s helper, then as Carl’s wife and Julian, Christy, Michelle, Tom…
The dog wakes her from the afternoon nap she’s granted herself.
He had meant to cut down the old tree, ragged and ugly as it was. He’d hacked off all the thin branches and sliced through the trunk…
“A little something to remember me by,” she said. In the little red box was her embroidered left eye.
As soon as a girl started to menstruate, the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins and neighbors banded together to craft her…
She wanted a staff writer position in Girl Mystery but the only opening was in Teen Paranormal Romance. She took the job. The pay was…