Fiction
… dance pattern that allows no deviation from the rules—I, becoming the mother and she, in some fashion, reverting to the … very firm until my son runs into the kitchen, until my son points to him in astonishment and then, we all troop to the … “An orange one. Don’t you remember how I cried when he died?” “No,” she says stubbornly. “You never had a cat. And …
… a second he just stood there, light refracting off the bifocals he couldn’t get used to. The gold wavered like a candle … so many years he felt firm and young himself, enjoying the company of teenagers when no one else did. He relished their … shoe dust, chalk and the warm fabric smell of clothes and bodies. The rumble intensified. “Hey, Mr. Burgess!” “Hi.” “Is …
… who sits slumped in her favorite reading chair. He looks falsely alive, like one of those Duane Hanson sculptures on … book from his lap. He does not wake up, but his breathing becomes audible. Laura is thankful for this simple sign of … to say that it was a bad omen, a sign that someone would die. “What’s a bad omen?” Laura yelled back from her …
… of having an actual Frenchwoman teach them might not come again, even when they got to college, where Catharine … Runnels County Weekly: French lessons by native Parisienne. Also lessons in piano, violin, watercolors, and oil … who stood on the high school stage and delighted the audience with hints of lechery and other evils among the nuns …
Fiction
… open his door,” says Tenenboym the night manager, when he comes to roust Landsman. Landsman lives in 505, with a view … but so far, to his regret, this claim has proven false. His vision of the past remains unimpaired. “We had to … carries a sour tang of pulped lumber, the smell of boat diesel and the slaughter and canning of salmon. According to …
… Teresa On the platform at Dieppe, at a corner so near the sea and the boat as to be … a word so like “Wrong” that she insisted on hauling out her companion. “Listen, Sister Patrick,” begged the novice, with … come too late. Teresa turned to Patrick, and burst into peals of laughter at the look of horror on her face. “We’re …