I grew up on a farm that stretched a mile in all directions. The stench of wet manure after a heavy rain, the chafe of

The first thing I noticed was the improper knot on his tie. He chose a large knot. It doesn’t fit. Every other man at the

I burned all her letters. After 45 years, I burned all her letters. She was in love with love. I was in love with her.

I’m spreading thin-cut marmalade on thick-sliced Mother’s Pride when you slam out of our High Barnet bathroom in your dressing gown. Although you insist with

“Naked?” I asked. “Well, yeah.” I glanced around the sparsely populated bistro before leaning close to Sam. “I’d be nervous. I don’t know …” “I

STELLA LEFT MY BED when the first pale hint of light appeared in the window. Whenever she stopped by on her way to somewhere, we

The man beckons to the girl standing by the curb. He’s parked at a reckless angle—leaning from the passenger window. She looks past him watching

Jenny Teague carried her luggage onto the mid-row car of the southbound train and settled in a window seat. The train passed suburban houses with

‘Mind your time,’ my dad phones to warn me an hour before we leave for the airport.  ‘Bloody right-wing rioters – there’s diversions everywhere. Maybe

The ceiling fan blows a chill across me, so I turn to my right and throw my arm over my sleeping husband, Will, to snuggle

A male cardinal watched us through the bedroom window. It was a sunny late-November Tuesday, the branches of the oak outside were still, and Harve

I spent the night with Marilyn Monroe on Christmas. Since I was in labor, I didn’t enjoy it much. The house held a panoply of

My father was in a Florida hospital drugged up to mask the pain of the cancer that marched through him like Sherman through Atlanta during

The first time I saw him, he took my breath away.  He’d seemed so young. I knew that really, he couldn’t be more than five

As she sat at her desk, pondering the screen in front of her, the spreadsheet swam. Cecily knew she was distracted, not flummoxed. She could