Fiction

The Beetle jerked to a stop in front of the low brick schoolhouse, spraying gravel. Lucy glanced at the outside clock: 9:03. The greeter-parent would still be here, but maybe…

It was day two of the journey home, and I missed Miriam. On the way to Yerushalayim for the Feast of the Passover our families had walked together, her friendship…

Above the hotel check-in desk. Smiling, arms around a short-haired dog. On the cash register at the breakfast diner. Last seen wearing a red sweatshirt. Last seen in the family…

When you see your first ultrasound, you’ll think your son resembles a snowflake against a dark window. You’ll run your hands over your stomach and then sense an enigma sprouting…

April 21. 6:30am. Susan looks down at Carla on the changing table. The girl is squeezing her eyes shut, concentrating. Something is going on under the stretchies and the fresh…

It was her silent affirmations that kept her from going completely insane. And only just barely. Becky was not cut out for this work. She didn’t deserve it. She leaned…

Alice is still asleep. Her lashes lie on her cheek, dark and fine as feathers; her face is round and innocent as a baby’s. I don’t often see her sleeping;…

Age 7 The hardest thing is when they ask you why you do it. What do you mean, you don’t know? What were you thinking? I wasn’t thinking anything. Like…

It was pouring rain when they arrived at the Long Beach Island rental house. Craig and the girls huddled on the porch, while Elaine jiggled the key in the lock.…

The motel is alive with post-prom action. It seems as if every teenager in the greater Boston area has converged on this Route 1 Econo Lodge to drink Wild Turkey,…

I’m lying in bed listening to my parents fucking. Whatever. Do they think I can’t hear them? Hell, the walls are thin as paper, my room bumps right up against…