Fiction

Let’s dip into a couple editor favorites from Father’s Days past.   In Hungry to Eat from 2012, David Harris Ebenbach writes of a father figuring out on the fly how to help…

She had changed. Her darling girl carried a lift in her shoulders, a stance she’d mastered overseas, without Margaret’s reminders. It was a posture a mother wished for in a…

Twilight. The echo of coyotes off the mountains beyond the lake drifts through the cold August air. The sound makes the mile and a half from here to the other…

They arrive ten minutes early, which Michelle regrets. She suggests a walk. He runs ahead. She feels as she always does, like a ball of string is unwinding before her,…

No one shows up to an Indian dinner party on time. Everyone knows to come at least two hours after the stated invitation, but her husband had gotten the odd…

Janine and Andre played daily teasing games about imaginary family members as Janine drove Andre home from work. Because of the age difference and Janine’s busted radio, there wasn’t much…

“How old is he?” the woman asks coolly, nodding toward Jacob. She has oversized sunglasses and a sharp blonde bob. Although it’s 90 degrees and humid in late morning at…

And you also think it could have been you, your mother. If your mother had been the type to drink and go out, instead of not drink and watch old…

The first weirdness is that there is a touch screen kiosk, which really isn’t a kiosk but more like a mini ATM. Customers, like me, have to “state their business…

Cath missed Annie. Of course, there were regular posts on Annie’s social media page, changes to her profile photo—most recently, in March, her newly pregnant abdomen, dramatically draped in stripes—but…

Truths about March’s marriage: James is a workaholic whose true loves are 1. His mother 2. His work as a surgeon 3. Clay. You’d have to ask him where his…