The Sphinx of Summers Past
Arthur sat on his screened porch, the morning newspaper crossword puzzle open before him. Seven across: 'Egyptian riddle-giver.' Sphinx. Easy. He glanced toward the garden where h...
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Arthur sat on his screened porch, the morning newspaper crossword puzzle open before him. Seven across: 'Egyptian riddle-giver.' Sphinx. Easy. He glanced toward the garden where h...
Margaret sat in her velvet armchair, the one her husband Arthur had loved so well, watching the morning sun paint the floorboards in gold. At eighty-two, she'd learned that the qui...
Margaret sat on her back porch, watching the sunset paint the sky orange—the same color it had been when she first brought her baby girl home to this house forty years ago. Now tha...
Arthur adjusted his glasses and peered at the television, where a baseball game flickered across the screen in high definition. His grandson, ten-year-old Leo, sat beside him, fidg...
Margaret sat on her porch swing, watching the golden retriever—her grandson's dog, they said, though it moved with the same gentle grace as the one she'd loved forty years ago. The...
Eleanor stood at the edge of the pool, the chlorine scent rising like an old friend's embrace. At seventy-eight, her joints protested a bit more than they once had, but the water s...
Martha's hands trembled slightly as she unfolded the quilt, her fingers tracing the familiar embroidery she'd stitched sixty years ago. The fabric held them all — the family she'd ...
Margaret stood before the oak wardrobe, her fingers tracing the faded fabric of her late husband's fedora. It was the same hat Harold had worn forty-three years ago at the county f...
The old baseball cap sat on the porch railing, faded blue fabric worn soft as cotton wool. Arthur picked it up, thumbing the frayed brim where his name was written in his mother's ...
Arthur sat on his porch, the worn baseball in his hands as familiar as his own heartbeat. Every evening at dusk, the fox appeared—a russet phantom moving through his garden with an...
Margaret stood in the attic, dust motes dancing in the afternoon sun that slanted through the small window. Her granddaughter Emma, twelve and full of questions, pulled down a wood...
Margaret sat on the dock where she and Eleanor had spent sixty summers together, her feet dangling in the cool lake water. The grandchildren were running up and down the shore—litt...