“You must listen for sixty seconds,” the attending told me on the way in. He didn’t need to […]
Death
This is it, Autumn thought. Everyone was another body she’d have to wait behind. As the people streamed […]
Loss is the sound of a closing door echoing in a dusty room the smell of those midnight […]
Health and circumstance have compelled me to slow down. In my convalescence, stripped of a vocation, I have […]
We are but a tenacious ghost in a machine haunting some locus of control spinning round the days […]
On the warmest day in winter, the sun pokes its pretty head out to melt the ice. A […]
On the morning of Christmas Eve, I get a text from Mom that reads, “Please call me thx,” […]
A convoy of three black vehicles plows through the MDW traffic. Of all the days to have a […]
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Robert Schwartz was my mother’s father. We called him Poppa. A week and a half ago, I landed […]