Dec 02, 2022
Room 105 at the Ramada on Sundays
Mary decided then and there that Harold would do. She missed skin on skin. She missed letting go.
The Americanization of Kambili
I hissed the words at her. “This, your America, it will kill you.”
Nov 04, 2022
Model Home
Here’s the truth. We live in a model home in a prestigious village in a master-planned city. Beyond those borders, things aren’t so rosy.
Oct 28, 2022
The Vaughns in the Loft Down the Hall
I never did learn how the Vaughns got their money, but maybe that was part of the appeal—the mystery of it all.
Oct 21, 2022
The Disappearance of Guy
Guy was released shortly after he was detained. His parents did their best to keep everything quiet. But already the rumors had begun.
Oct 14, 2022
Dorothy Dancer Has Had Enough
She imagined impaling her husband on the molasses-stained tusk of that elephant. “It should’ve been you,” she said.
Oct 07, 2022
The Benefactor
The bills were too thick to conceal in my pocket, so I reached inside my briefs and hid them there.
Sep 16, 2022
Egg Mother
“I’m staging an intervention,” my husband says. “I miss my wife. I can’t be married to scrambled eggs anymore. You have to see a therapist.”
Sep 09, 2022
Sunkiller
We wanted to embellish her legend, but now we were only the witnesses of her want.
Sep 02, 2022
The Present
If she just had her family back, Nia thought. Together they could chart a way out of the breaking.
Aug 26, 2022
Pages from Before
Three days, our people had agreed: a real, old-school, ‘Rolling Stone’–style profile.
Aug 12, 2022
Pinned
“I didn’t even realize the sun had already set,” I said, turning on a light for Herrick. He awoke with a jerk. “Time to eat.”
Aug 05, 2022
An Old Hope
In previous pages of my journal, what I had remembered of the poem she’d shared with me, I jotted down.
Jul 22, 2022
Alarm
Our Prevenir wristwatch alarms went off, the sound like a flock of robotic seagulls. One pill, every fifteen minutes, for twelve hours of each day.
Jul 15, 2022
People Like Them
It would never be said that Gloribel wasn’t the first, or the last, to swallow what wasn’t real.
Jul 01, 2022
