Vashti knew the navy couch. People call her difficult; they don’t know she waited all her life to say no. A dance with destiny […]
Month: September 2024
Jacqueline Jules – ‘Forty-Four Perfect Candles’
This small blue box, four inches tall, holds forty-four candles. Exactly enough for eight nights provided one or more are not broken, misshapen, […]
Lisa Grunberger – An Excerpt from ‘The Happy Adoptee’
1. Orphan Long Island, 1998 During the summer of 1998, two major things happened that shaped my decision to find grandparents for Rachel: during that summer […]
Rachel Howe – ‘My JAP Journey’
Don’t be a JAP. That was the clear message I had been given my entire childhood. It seemed like the most important thing NOT to […]
Mark Russ – ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’
Pavel shot up from his knees, barely having time to make the sign of the cross, when he heard the cruise missile strike his […]