The Last Summer's Goldfish
Margaret sat on the back porch, watching her grandchildren play in the old swimming pool. The same pool where her children had learned to swim forty years ago, where she'd spent co...
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Margaret sat on the back porch, watching her grandchildren play in the old swimming pool. The same pool where her children had learned to swim forty years ago, where she'd spent co...
Martha sat at her kitchen table, the sleek iphone her granddaughter Sarah had given her resting beside her toast. At seventy-eight, she'd finally joined the digital age, though she...
Arthur sat on his front porch swing, the evening sun painting the sky the color of a ripe orange—the same shade his late wife, Eleanor, had loved in her flower garden. At eighty-tw...
Margaret's silver hair caught the morning light as she sat on her porch, holding the small iPhone her granddaughter had given her. Her arthritic palm cradled the device like a frag...
Arthur sat on his back porch, Whiskers the orange tabby curled like a warm loaf of bread beside him. At seventy-eight, he'd learned that cats possessed wisdom humans spent lifetime...
Margaret smoothed her white hair, smiling at the silver strands that once matched her mother's beautiful crown. Now eighty-two, she understood what her grandmother meant about hair...
Eleanor sat on her screened porch, the summer storm rolling across the valley like distant thunder. At eighty-two, she'd weathered enough storms to know when to just sit back and w...
Martha arranged her morning **vitamin** pills on the kitchen counter—little colored capsules that promised more time, though time was the one thing she'd already had plenty of. Eig...
Martha sat at her kitchen table, organizing her morning pills into the small plastic compartment. One vitamin, two blood pressure tablets, a calcium supplement. At eighty-two, her ...
Margaret stood by the community pool gate, watching her grandson Marcus attempt to build a pyramid out of foam noodles. The bright blue and yellow cylinders kept collapsing, but he...
Margaret sat on her porch swing, Barnaby—the old golden retriever—resting his graying muzzle on her slippered feet. In her lap lay the strange glowing rectangle her granddaughter C...
Arthur sat in his worn leather armchair, the one that had molded to his shape over forty years of morning coffees and evening reflections. His granddaughter Emma, fourteen and pati...