The Snow Fell
There was a sound of the snow falling on snow. White blending with white, trees reaching up to catch each flake, one by one. The snow falling on snow sounded…
Cousin Eddie Whispered Into My Ear
It was Christmas Eve at Great-Grandma and Grandpa's house. The entire clan was there - great-aunts, great-uncles, second cousins, aunts, uncles, cousins, mom, dad, me, my sisters. But when we…
Sweetpea Animatedly Paced The Room
He was telling my housemate Lane and I about his sojourn to the Carnegie Museum to see this fantastic exhibition of work by Pierre Alechinsky. He couldn't explain it clearly…
My Grandmother Stood At The Counter In The Kitchen And Sighed In Desperation.
The questions just kept coming. They wouldn't stop. No matter how often she answered. No matter how much she pleaded. She went into the dining room to the hutch where…
Where Are They?
I’m standing in the middle of the road on the double yellow line at the five mile marker made from a question mark holding a gun to my head. Where…
Names Come From Somewhere
On the day I was born a boy living in a round house in South Africa looked to the sky knowing somehow that fate had now been sealed while my…