We are all searching, humans and animals alike, for a home…somewhere to call our own. Noelle is no different, in fact she’s more in need of a place to call home than most. After losing her husband in a way that was so damaging that it makes her question the motives of every man to cross her path ...
Michelle and I continued our standoff over the next few weeks, but I was growing impatient. Yes, I had kissed her boyfriend, but Michelle had cheated on him, too. I knew two wrongs didn’t make a right, but it wasn’t as black and white as Michelle liked to believe. I couldn’t understand why she wa...
Barbara made dinner: butternut squash soup, citrus-rubbed pork loin, and garlic mashed potatoes. What actually ended up on the table were four bowls of orange sludge, blackened hockey pucks, and some piles of white potato-flavored paste. My dad and I gritted our teeth and moved our food around ou...
I lit candles and sat at the mirror as I’d done before, trying to re-create the conditions that had allowed me to travel into that dark world, a world in which Gray still lived and breathed. I listened intently for my whispered name to echo from the glass and peered into the mirror searching for ...