Category Archives: Fiction

Zell thinks no one she knows reads her blog, but that’s not exactly true. Dana has the site bookmarked on her home computer, and sometimes she checks it out. She never comments or even clicks “like.” She doesn’t have a … Continue reading →

Charlie and Dana ran into each other in the market on Saturday. They’ve been acquainted for decades and they always have things to say, so they conversed. That’s fine, of course. What bothers me is what each told me afterward. … Continue reading →

They were taking a walk, as usual. William and Angie walked whenever they were together. Often they had her dog with them, pulling on the leash even though the retriever was seven now and old enough to behave, but on … Continue reading →

Most of the time we’re in sync with our friends and family and acquaintances, enough so that we can converse and communicate. But now and then we have a surreal encounter, where our assessment of the situation turns out to … Continue reading →

Emmy spent two weeks in Paris when she was 47. The occasion was her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary; it was her father’s favorite city and he talked her mother into taking the offspring there. Her dad was experienced at Paris. … Continue reading →

The ruckus began around sunset. It was fake-springtime that evening, a mild day in late February, around 6:00. Most of the neighborhood was home from classes or work, although many planned to go out later. That’s the way of college … Continue reading →

Maddy looked at her game stats a few days ago. She was shocked to see that she’s played over twenty thousand times. At an average of five minutes a game, that’s a hundred thousand minutes. Almost seventeen hundred hours. Over … Continue reading →

Of course Alice has thought about death before. It first occurred to her when she was five. She remembers being taught to recite the child’s bedtime prayer (Now I lay me down to sleep – I pray the Lord my … Continue reading →