How could he go so quickly from asking her to stay to asking her to leave? Yesterday, she’d gone to the cookout hoping to figure out how Evan felt about her and in turn how she felt about him. He couldn’t have made his feelings any clearer if he’d doused them in a bottle of Windex. What could hav...
The pastor back in New Hope loved that saying. He would quote it to me and the other kids in the congregation after the service ended, always in the context of helping out around the house. At the time, I didn’t know what it meant. I just knew that a playground sounded much more preferable than t...
What I find disturbs me. According to one site, psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that usually includes: false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is, which are referred to as delusions; seeing or hearing things that aren’t there, which are referred to as hallucinations. It’s ...
There had to be a mistake—of course she’d sent in the deposit. She racked her brain, forcing her memory into submission. She and Davis had gone to the theater and decided it would make an excellent venue. She’d told him she’d take care of the deposit, got a check from Marilyn, and then …Her heart...
Fern Halloway and Phil Nixon, my oldest bride and groom to date, sat across from me. Fern was a seventy-four-year-old woman whose first husband died twenty years ago. All of Mayfair celebrated when Phil, the owner of Mayfair’s one and only convenience store, mustered up the gumption and asked her...