As she stood in the entryway Kelly had the curious sensation, as you do at home when you walk into the kitchen and know that someone has just left, that this house had just been vacated by its rightful tenants.…

All the years undergound made Peony hungry to walk under the sun. Not the way the sun was now with it's interminable heat. As it was before when the oceans didn't lap over the coastal cities and the heat from…

Back in my Northwestern University days, because the Evanston campus was right on the beaches of the gorgeous Lake Michigan, we would all arrange our Spring semester schedules for as many free afternoons as possible then slather our bodies with…

We were travelling up north in Scotland. We were Navy cold warriors, drafted during the Vietnam War but still fighting Russia or shall I say the Soviet Union. The year was 1970 and I guess we were lucky to be…

skin burning hairs hardening all the air crisp

Hungry for the Sun Sarah came immediately. She understood exactly what was to be done and then it was done. Agatha watched in shock. Sarah telegraphed Mutti, who hurried to Berlin. Sarah called in the women of the Chevra Kaddisha…

They didn't see her. They saw the the scar on her face, her fatigues and weapons, and they assumed she was always like this. They never saw her hiding in a closet hoping the Talon would pass without discovering her.…

All the families were white, people said they were all Christians. People the Government felt were worthy of being relocated, it was implied, at considerable cost and effort. They were, of course, extremely grateful to be selected, to be safe,…

"The whole time, it was you." Marthann walked around the prince with a glistening in her eyes, shallow breathing, and the distinct smell of rusted metal clinging to his nostrils. However, she got him in this cell, she spared no…

I’m dreaming that I am on a train going somewhere, and I turn around and I meet my mother on the same train….. I meet my mother on a train going somewhere…..but I’ve no idea where. We do not hug.…

Peony walked up to the podium, looked over the mirrored water at the council that stared down at her from their marble throwns. How would she possibly convince them. What are the odds they would hear her pleas to save…

The odds are we should never have been born The funeral was small, private and quick. Bella was laid to rest in Alter Judischer Friedhof, Berlin’s first Jewish cemetery. Some of the oldest tombstones dated from 1672, noted Agatha. After…