Surreal
Reminder (2)
He went back on Thursday. Not the next Thursday. The Thursday after that. Eleven days in which the taste of the champagne resurfaced three times —...
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Reminder (1)
The postcard was in the mailbox between a credit card offer and a flyer for a pizza place that had closed in November. Stuart Kemp pulled all three...
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Stepping Stones
I had intended to chart the course of my life by identifying the 'stepping stones' of my most embarrassing moments. As the memories surfaced in ever...
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Addition (3)
They bought the house on Vetch Lane in March. The closing took eleven days. Audrey handled most of the paperwork — the signatures, the inspections,...
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Addition (2)
The second showing was Audrey's idea. On a Tuesday Philip came home from work and Audrey was sitting on the couch with her laptop and a legal pad and...
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Addition (1)
The house on Vetch Lane was eleven thousand dollars more than they could afford. Audrey had done the math twice on the back of a grocery receipt...
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Outsider Inside
I came inside... Why am I so cold? I can feel the warmth, there's a security to it, a comfort, but the cold, it clings to me. Try as I might to feel...
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Woman in Black
The woman in Black appeared in my dream last week.
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Re∆ision (3)
Three-fourteen came and went. Three-eighteen. Three-twenty-one. At three-twenty-three the front door opened and Sadie said, "I'm home." The emphasis...
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Re∆ision (2)
Sunday. Dennis made eggs. She heard him in the kitchen before the alarm — the skillet on the burner, the carton opening, the crack of the shell. She...
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