What Remains
Sheila adjusted the blanket around Marcus's shoulders, his movements jerky and unnatural. Three years ago, he'd been teaching architectural history at Cornell, hands gesturing as h...
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Sheila adjusted the blanket around Marcus's shoulders, his movements jerky and unnatural. Three years ago, he'd been teaching architectural history at Cornell, hands gesturing as h...
The spinach wilted in the colander like a conversation that had gone on too longโonce vibrant, now reduced to something limp and regrettable. Elena stood at the kitchen island, wat...
Marcus stood in the doorway of his life's work, watching his spinach smoothie turn warm on the corner of his desk. The glass had sat there for three hours since he'd blended it tha...
Elena smoothed the wide-brimmed hat she'd bought that morning, watching her reflection in the office building's glass door. At forty-seven, she was finally learning to leave things...
The cardboard hat sat on Mara's deskโa ridiculous cardboard crown left by the one person who'd made this job bearable. Elena had walked out three weeks ago, leaving behind the crow...
The funeral had ended two hours ago, but Elena still wore her black hat, tilting it low over eyes that refused to cry. She sat on the concrete edge of the swimming pool where Marcu...
The pool had been Elena's ideaโshe'd said it would bring them together, create memories. Now it was just David and the water, glass-still in the October twilight. Forty-two and ta...
Elena adjusted the microphone hidden in her pearl earrings, her reflection in the ballpark bathroom mirror showing a woman who looked like she belonged at a summer **baseball** gam...
Elena ran her fingers through her hair, the silver strands catching the fluorescent light of the museum office. At forty-five, she'd stopped coloring it three months agoโa small re...
The bell chimed at 7 PMโlast appointment of the day. Elena swept a lock of gray hair from her cape, trying not to think about how much of it was coming out of her own head these da...
The papaya sat on the kitchen counter, its flesh already softening at the edges, much like the seven years of their marriage. Elena sliced through it, the knife revealing the black...
The padel court gleamed under the harsh fluorescent lights of the resort clubhouse, a pristine rectangle of blue and green that had somehow become the graveyard of our marriage. El...