On a Sunday night there were a dinner party at the country club and a tryst at a roadside tourist cabin and a prayer meeting at the Lutheran Church and three drunks telling lies in the men’s room of the bus depot and a Negro child dying f leukemia on Jitney Street and a young cou...
"I'm going. Married couples always stick together." The line made Otsuu's heart swell. With a lopsided smile, she took Little Mermaid's hand and led them in the direction of the commotion. 11 "Eight, nine... ten! Haha! This is amazing." They heard a voice. It was the first ...
He wondered while he laughed. “Oh but what does SHE deserve?” It was her gravity that continued to answer. “Yes–it would probably kill her.” “She believes so in you?” Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Share on
“What A Thought” — Michelle Obama famously said she spent ten years of her marriage hating Barack. It started when they had kids. Hating your spouse resonated with many straight couples. In this short story, Shirley Jackson’s fictional wife is bothered one summer’s evening with intrusive ...
After I married, I left my home and created a life in a new city that my children call home. Now that they are grown with families of their own I, like many people my age, am questioning if I should stay in the home their dad and I created for them. The four walls, the house...
Prayer. Helping others to see that they cannot control others even though they work so hard at doing so. I see more adults and children who take no responsibility for their behaviors but blame others for their unhappiness. When I work with individuals who feel they need that control we ...
Gloria’s well-to-do parents had found their faith when she had arrived seven weeks prematurely, and while she was fighting for her life, they were finding comfort in prayer. But, as is the way of things, they attended Church every week for a couple of years, then it became just ...