Falling is always slow motion for the person falling. I am falling. I’ve been pushed (or did I jump) out…
Lady of the night. It was an old phrase my mom used to say. We would be driving in the…
I am a Queen. I have given birth to four hundred and thirty-two children. There are only a few of…
We have been in the fallout shelter for two years today. Dad made a chocolate cake with two candles, though…
Sanity is a strange country. Everything is right side up and manageable. You don’t get too mad there. You don’t…
She was a cold one. My doctor. A few months ago she told me not to have children. “Much too…
He thought he was unlovable. When he murdered my mother he thought he became unlovable. “I’m so sorry,” he thickly…
In the summer of my tenth year, kids went missing. Kids went missing all the time but it seemed it…
Next year they start turning eighteen, the first ones. Able to vote. Most of them run their own businesses already.…
I guess there’s a mad old lady in every neighbourhood. I suppressed a sigh when I found ours on my…