Stories

If wishes were horses

September 16, 2010

Lynne stood near a pile of horse manure, leaning on a fence post, flies zooming around her in the late-afternoon sun. She squinted her eyes and watched the creatures before her, a lump in her throat and tears threatening to overflow her eye sockets. She sighed away the feeling of being consumed, which had come [...]

The night my house broke up with me

July 8, 2010

It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was a frigid January night, and all the homes in our old neighborhood were shut tight. As tight as the skin on Joan Rivers’ face. I was in the bathroom bathing the kids, then ages 4 and 2. Roger was out of town and not due [...]

How my underwear saved a marriage

April 13, 2010

My phone rang in between the time I dropped my kids at school and the start of my yoga class. My friend got right to the point. “Do you, by any chance, wear Calvin Klein size M underwear?” I thought back to the last time I bought undies, trying to remember my size. It was [...]

Double feature

January 19, 2010

Thanks to the Girl Scouts, Rob and Lynne were having a grand Date Night. They’d dropped the kids off at the local school where the Scouts were hosting a Parents Night Out. They’d kissed the heads of their children and admonished them to behave for the babysitters. Before too long, Rob and Lynne were sipping [...]

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