My list of worries also included … if my clothes were right for the small artsy school I’d chosen that had, miraculously, chosen me too.
Persuasion by Ona Gritz
Year: 2020
Denial by Jane Rucker
July 31 is my youngest daughter’s 21st birthday. I don’t know where she is.
Why I’ve Never Read The Secret Garden by Joyce Tomlinson
On Christmas Eve 1964, a month after he’d eloped, my father and his young bride Donna picked me up for a family party…
What You Do in a Coup by Kelly Hevel
It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Friday and Jenny and Chloe, who rarely message me, are both texting to ask if I know what the hell is going on.
Horse Girl by Sophie Newman
Traci was a purist in her approach and believed the art of riding should be learned without a saddle or bridle or any other kind of tack.
Vocabulary by Leta Rebecca Cunningham
Let me try to say it out loud. Roll the phrase around in my mouth. Taste the words and let them melt under my tongue.
Blue As In by Matthew Morris
One of the guards calls out, Who you got? and his teammate says, Skinny nigga. He means me.
What Mother Means by Anne Colwell
It happened in the apartment in Inwood, Upper Manhattan, before they’d moved to the row house in Queens.
Comfort by Sarah Barnett
Judy takes comfort in the feathers her dead husband leaves for her to find.
Patience by Rich Furman
My lover is from Ulleungdo, Korea, an isolated island of craggy rocks and squid fisherman and a population of just over ten thousand people.
