Zina’s Version
April 25, 2018[…] Lizzy’s back door? “Come in.” She didn’t add his name: “Frank.” She didn’t hold the door open for him, but turned and let it shut behind her. By the time he reopened it and […]
[…] Lizzy’s back door? “Come in.” She didn’t add his name: “Frank.” She didn’t hold the door open for him, but turned and let it shut behind her. By the time he reopened it and […]
Headed west, Brother and Sister Gustavson pushed their handcart for many miles singing, “Some must push and some must pull” before their miracle happened. They inherited a wagon -— all in the moment a […]
[…] my Aunt Lois, whose transfer from the hospital to the “House” had coincided with my return home for a vacation, of the homecoming kind which a writer convinces himself is necessary every half-decade or […]
Brother Duvalier—the branch president—had us out to his farm for dinner tonight. Which is to say, he had us out to milk cows with his farmhand while his wife made us dinner. It strikes […]
And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose have I made these things. . . . And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own […]
[…] afternoon. The plane had made its way north all that day, stopping in Miami, then Atlanta be fore finally arriving six minutes ahead of schedule at John Wayne International. They had waited all day […]
[…] his feet. “Where is my Ebinger?” he asked as he did every day, staring past her solid form. “You know that I do not touch it, Domlik. I shall never touch it.” He wandered […]
[…] ago. Back then, Mom, Dad, and nine Feldsted kids had spilled out of a van big enough for a reform school. Dad had cornered Kevin, man to man, and pulled out his wallet. Mom […]
[…] morning, or the last few weeks of mornings. A few months have passed since the miscarriage, and for the first time in her adult life, she feels the charge of rebellion in her veins. […]
[…] reason about; and the matters of principle concern moral principles of the most knotty, perplexing sort. But for me, out of this muddle, two points emerge clearly. The first is that despite the difficulty […]