Alexander sat on the mangled remains of the stolen carriage and listened to the silence. At least the quarrel would be ended, though he desperately wished he had been wrong. Just ahead, Natalia's black silhouette, radiant against the setting sun,…
View writingI'm everywhere. I am a regular fixture on the business networking circuit, a recurring character in meetings featuring nametags, taglines, and free bagels. I am a hub: Need a business lawyer in Houston, Texas? I know two great ones. An…
View writingIt's January, the first month of the year. The anniversary of your death is approaching, the anniversary of your birth several weeks after that. The thing about the circumstances -- your chance encounter with another father, younger by some forty…
View writingI didn’t get a chance to put Christmas decorations up this year. I didn’t even bring the stockings my mom made over 65 years ago down like I usually would. I planned to do it all last week. But it…
View writingJo liked to think Ah Ma went to heaven, but Auntie Susan said Ah Ma cursed too much and cheated in mahjong. But Ah Ma fed stray cats leftover food from the kitchen, Jo argued. That conversation took place a…
View writingPeople she did not know went by, whispering in tones so low only the dust can hear as they passed each awkwardly in the narrow hallway. Death, she thought, is kind of like the library. You always have to whisper…
View writingIt was only a wisp,” Marnie said. “But I felt it.” “A wisp,” her husband said. He’d repeated her word, but his glance was skeptical. “Maybe you could explain further.” “I’m not sure I can.” She poured them both a…
View writingMuch to say about the word "wisp".....short for "whisper" immediately comes to mind...which brings further to mind the idea that if you want to get someone's attention, even the attention of an entire audience, don't yell....whisper. Make THEM come to…
View writing"This is an outrage, Fleming, and I shall be taking my custom elsewhere in future!" Ana sat on the cushioned bench by the window of Fleming's Inn listening as the merchant hired to bring her to the capital berated the…
View writingI've never been a strong history scholar. When I've read about people from times before the 1980s, they have seemed unrelatable, not real. Give me a movie with a bellbottom jean, and I'm out. Born in 1974, I was too…
View writingI run away from home almost every day. Well, I trot or walk away from home. I don't run. I began a new work schedule a week ago, and now I log in for work at 1:00 pm instead of…
View writingWhen my husband and I got married, many years ago, I remember feeling different in a specific way, different and better. I felt like I finally had a home. I left my mother’s house when I was seventeen to spread…
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