Thank you was what I wanted to say but already your back was to me I remember most vividly your wiry hair, into which the teeth of a sequined comb disappeared I can still picture its butterfly width so clearly,…

She had achieved it, after so many years of dodging roses from strange men, catcalls on the way to work, the tremolo of the robins restlessly perched on a branch outside her window, which looked out over the courtyard in…

Her scar insulated her. They would see the metal eye, the tissue visible at the edges, the bizarre juxtaposition of grey wire and pink flesh. They would stare a moment too long, and sometimes their mouths would open, and they…

A perfect loneliness When Agatha’s father died, the world stopped. She and Mutti were now alone. Her father had a big family, but they ignored Mutti and Agatha. Holidays were excruciatingly painful, especially Christmas. Agatha was young but she understood…

Jury Duty When she got there, she was directed to the elevators on the left, the ones that went to the floor Courtrooms 18, 19, 20 and 24 were on. The ninth floor. There were several people already in the…

[Fiction] His aunt entered the senior community with what his wife thought was a form of glee. She wouldn't have to cook! She could have a small studio apartment (as opposed to a vacuous three bedroom house) that someone else…

(I'm in revision now, so here is the opening of my novel.) “They killed off one of those fish.” “You sure about that, Pop,” I said, helping him into a recliner. “There were six last week. Now there’s five.” I…

Much has been written of it, this solitude that I have only come to appreciate in my older years. And such is the tale of Ingrid. And her discovery of her perfect loneliness….. more to the point her love for…

BETRAY: expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy……or: disclose, divulge, reveal, and tell….. treacherously reveal (secrets or information). Sometimes, well,let me be clear….most times, we live lives of secrecy…pure and…

Everything will betray itself Sarah was glum. Hans comforted her. “How can we live in world like this?” asked Sarah flatly. “A man literally set Jews praying for peace on fire. He said they supported war. Are people mad?” “The…

More and more she found herself throwing things away. This was a real departure from the first several decades in her life. It wasn’t conscious at first. It began with the sweater drawer. She threw out, without even looking at…