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Category: Fiction
Earth, Wind & Fire
I don’t ask. There’s no need. I can’t predict the specifics of what’s stewing deep in my husband’s gut on this particular morning, mind you, but after more than four decades of marriage, the quiet tells me enough.
The Weight of Two Words
Josephine and I met at a painting party. You know the kind—a bunch of women gather in a storefront jammed with chairs and easels, and copy the instructor’s brushstrokes while sipping wine. Two hours later, thirty almost identical paintings are held by thirty significantly tipsy artists, each woman giddy from drink, camaraderie, and creative release.
Without Emma
Sarah traces the curves of Emma’s cradle and rests her fingertips on the soft flannel sheet fitted neatly against its hand-turned slats. She pulls the tiny mattress out, presses her face against it, and inhales deeply.
Home
I wasn’t born in the States, but it has been my home and my country since I was 26. I am a citizen, just as my wife, a third generation American, is. Our children were all born in the city where their mother grew up.
August in Bloom
My parents named me August, though I came into the world on one of the coldest February mornings in Jasper County history. It wasn't long before I understood the irony and the appropriateness of their choice.
Unhappy Campers
"Yo, Ivy! Sumac! Leave those raspberries alone!"
Sunny Acres
When I was hired here, nearly 18 months ago, I expected, well, to be honest I hadn't known exactly what to expect. My experience with older people had been limited.
Missing Molly
I’d wondered if I should tell her—if telling her would be safe. Molly had been coming by since she was a little girl tagging along with her mother, and I knew she’d wonder when she turned the corner and saw...
One Small Voice
At the end of a lovely treed street, in a small house with a striped awning, lived a tiny girl. She wasn't exceptionally beautiful or talented, and there was no one on this earth particularly grateful for her existence.
elizabeth grace 