Gerhard promised her that she would not have to hide forever—just until they had a plan. “I don’t mind,” she said. “There are things that I prefer about this existence.” His smile flashed white in the darkness. “Yes? What is preferable about this gy...
No, no, no, it can’t happen, it mustn’t!” —Nora, A Doll’s House, Act II By lunchtime Saturday I had calmed down enough to keep my date with Will. Derek had insisted “just this once,” on driving me to the restaurant, a pub called Chappy’s in Pine Grove. He seemed to fear that I would resent his ...
Had it really been a note for me? I hadn't exchanged a significant sentence with the guy in years, and yet he had written, “I'm afraid I misled you the other day.” The other day. What had happened the other day? Did that mean yesterday? Two days ago? The last I'd spoken about Logan was with his w...
“Oh, Lilah—you’re a bit late, aren’t you?” asked Esther, her white hair disheveled and her face red from the ovens. She was toiling over a tray of bacon-wrapped scallops; we were doing a home wedding reception that evening. Her husband, Jim, gray bearded and blue jeaned, w...
She was tall and slim, and the figure visible beneath her T-shirt and blue jeans suggested that her high school physique wasn’t entirely a thing of the past. The chocolate-colored hair that curled behind her ears held no trace of gray; then again, Libby was only in her late thirties. Her wide bro...
My mother hadn't been pleased, but I'd noted as the months passed that she seemed to be adapting to the new color, even mentioning it to her friends in a way suggesting that I wasn't, after all, shaming the Mann family with my capricious decision. Finally, in late January, I knew that my mother a...
Jenny had been my college roommate for four years, when we had challenged our intellects and our social lives on the Lake Shore campus of Loyola University. I majored in English but decided, in the end, that I didn’t want to teach, and that was how I ended up doing secret catering and working at ...
It’s time to ramp things up a little! The training is going to get a little tougher, but the sessions are still short, fast-paced and varied. You have four new workout sessions to do alongside your daily 30 minutes of steady paced activity which, as...