It took everything to get here. All that fell away: relationships, pride, money, inherited values. What would I have kept from holding on when it turned out love was water? You can’t hold it with fingers clenched in a fist;…

For centuries, throughout their extensive family tree, the notorious Rassov’s trusted only each other. It had to be that way, for the nature of the Family Business demanded care, discretion, and utmost death-defying solidity….a united front, preserved through centuries of…

Whose Dream is it Anyway? My sister Dana and I disagreed on dreams, I hold that you cannot dream something you have not witnessed in some shape or form even if you can’t retrieve an associative memory of whatever it…

I sniffed as I stood in the mud where the trilium flowers bloomed, my pants dirty, rain falling on my face. Megan texted me and said Guinness the Cat was here. I texted her back. "Do you think so?" "Of…

There are dreams that we have that we soon forget upon waking. And others that stay with us when we turn on the lights. Like this dream I had this morning. It was close to the waking, so easier to…

As if to make amends For a long while, Agatha’s happy home was a place of silence. She and Andres coexisted, speaking only when necessary. Despite her grey eyes, stormy as Nordsee, she did not confront Andres about what he…

She had grown up without a father. That’s not true, she had a father, ALberto. He was very handsome and wealthy and urbane. He was Italian and spoke Spanish perfectly. As soon as he hit Argentina he began to build…

How do you explain the miracle of friendship? I mean, true friendship, not the sort of convenient, lasts-for-a-while then dissolves kind….a friendship that proves itself by knowing it has nothing to prove.

Growing old is so many things that sometimes it feels like it is everything and nothing, like air, like time. I have aches in all my joints, some of which I don’t think have a legitimate purpose in a human…

She never asked to be an assassin. Never asked to be given a life of eternal hiding and forever-lasting disappearing. It was just what was expected of the children in her family: to follow in the footsteps, to keep the…