I sighed quietly after opening the gate and discovering my wife sipping coffee on the porch with her sister. It…
I was the coffin maker’s daughter. Papa made the most lovely coffins. Deep, roomy, lined in French silk, smoothed…
She came one summer to stay with her maiden aunt who lived next door to me. I was ten, she…
‘Oh God, I’m so sorry. I really don’t know what happened.’ ‘Well, at least we won’t have to worry about…
Mack the Knife was a dirge. Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made it jazzy, catchy – an insidious song…
‘One day Daddy,’ my daughter Rose says as she washes up after dinner. ‘One day everything will be so much…
The hay and crops were on fire, but I turned my back on the haunting flames. Men were flinging buckets…
‘Everything was easy for you because you were the youngest. I was the one who ended up with all of…
What happened? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin. After the crash, with Bill on life support and us having…
He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…