I’m falling in and out of sleep as the sun shines through our hotel room windows. The Eiffel Tower twinkles in the same sunlight, greeting me every time I open my eyes. Before I turn toward my boyfriend, anyway, who is fast asleep on the other side of the bed and lightly snoring. Enough to be cut...
This always happened, and Hunter always found himself sitting at the phone calling voters to make sure they knew who to vote for that November. It’s not me. But he was expected to cold call people and ask “Hello, this is Hunter Hall, son of candidate Terrence Hall. Do you know about…?” Worst of a...
More volunteers showed up every day to make phone calls, stuff envelopes, and go door to door in the name of Terrence Hall. The downtown campaign headquarters overflowed to the point where stragglers were sent to the house. Hunter couldn’t walk two steps outside of his room without bumping into s...
Eva said, slamming back her third brandy of the hour. “They spend the whole year in Montana and now think we’re going to gallivant around NYC for the holidays. Who wants to spend Christmas snowed in like that? I fucking don’t.” Kathryn pretended to be listening intently, b...
Lately it seemed she couldn’t go a whole day without thinking of her boyfriend. Well, of course it was natural to think of the man she was infatuated with every day. That’s not the problem. The issue was what it did to her physically. She knew she had a problem when she we...
Save for the man gazing at Monica over his shoulder. “Monica.” He stood, and Monica took a step back. “Long time no see.” Yes. A long time, but not long enough. “Jackson.” Her resolve was weak. For a woman who had felt like s...