SLOWLY SLIDING by Jennifer Hildebrandt
December 29, 2016, Updated Death Wishes
You don’t have to mourn or carry on or weep or pace. Get over it. I’m dying. Talk to me. Tell me to...
A CANDLE FOR FLORENCE by Martta Kelly
Every year on the anniversary of the death of my mother, Florence, I struggle with the same dilemma: Should I light a yahrzeit candle in her memory, or not? In Judaism, the...
STACI by Jeff Loeb
The house was only blocks away, so I got there in minutes. Staci’s sobs were already breathless heaves. All I could do was hold her and utter empty words: “What is it,...
JAM SESSION by Svitlana Matiushenko-Musyj
“Rules for happiness: something to do,
someone to love, something to hope for.” ― Immanuel Kant
She was challenging herself again, “Can I do it? Maybe I can...
BERNIE, DOROTHY, AND CATHERINE by Mary Jane White
Bernie, Dorothy and Catherine
Methodically then, not only each night, as Ruffin slept or not, but also during the seven hours of his first day at school, throughout the...
LIVING IN THE EYE OF THE STORM by Wendy A. Miller
Wearing an oversized floral top, you sit on an exam table, swinging your legs off the end when the doctor enters the room. She greets you and then probes your left breast....
OUZO: A TASTE OF GREECE by Grove Koger
Most children grow up loving licorice instinctively, but I’ve never learned to tolerate the stuff. So it’s been a surprise to me that I enjoy ouzo so much. Granted, ouzo is flavored...
THE LOST SOLES OF D.C. by Terry Connell
It was an early June morning, the sun was still working its way into the eastern sky, and there I was, heading up Quincy Street, on the final stretch of my morning...
I AM NOT YOUR INDIAN by Swathi Desai
I was born in a country far, far away from where I’ve lived most of my life. Some may think I’m not Indian enough because I don’t know where the best Indian...
WRITE ME HOME by Linda C. Wisniewski
Write Me Home
The young woman’s face on my laptop screen smiled encouragement. Look at the sky if you’re near a window, she said, or remember the sky if...