Poolside Pyramids and the Cat Who Knew
Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her towel like a lifeline. The social pyramid of Creekwood Summer Camp loomed before her—quite literally, since someone had arranged t...
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Maya stood at the edge of the pool, clutching her towel like a lifeline. The social pyramid of Creekwood Summer Camp loomed before her—quite literally, since someone had arranged t...
Margaret stood in the attic, dust motes dancing in the afternoon light that filtered through the small window. At seventy-eight, she'd learned that the most precious possessions we...
The hotel pool was dead at 2 AM, its surface like cut glass under the security lights. Marcus sat on the lounge chair, the fifth of his **vitamin** supplements dissolving on his to...
The zombie in the mirror startled me—pale skin, dark circles, eyes that had forgotten how to focus. Six months since Sarah's funeral, and I was still moving through days on autopil...
The goldfish in the salon's reception tank had seen more of Sofia's corruption than any priest could claim to hear in confession. It watched with its unblinking eye as she slid the...
Maria stood at the edge of her garden, where the papaya tree her husband planted forty years ago still bore fruit. Every summer, the ripe orange flesh reminded her of their honeymo...
Barnaby was not like other bulls. While his friends loved to run and chase butterflies across the meadow, Barnaby spent his days gazing at the sparkling blue ocean in the distance....
At seventy-eight, Martha still tended the orange grove her grandfather planted in 1952. The trees had grown gnarled with age, much like herself, their branches heavy with fruit eac...
I retrieved the worn brown fedora from the cedar chest, its wide brim still holding the faint scent of pipe tobacco and summer rain. The story it could tell if it could speak—the h...
Maya's purple hair was supposed to be the statement. The look that said, "I'm confident, I'm artsy, I'm totally not overthinking this." Instead, three weeks later, the color had fa...
Maria sat on her porch, the afternoon light filtering through the palm fronds above. At eighty-two, she had learned that time moves like the tides—sometimes rushing forward, someti...
Barnaby was a small golden dog with floppy ears and a very big secret. Every night when his family slept, he put on his invisible spy hat and went on important missions. At least, ...