Marty scheduled his announcement for 10:00 AM on a Monday, and the Friday before he pinned a notice with the date, time and place on the bulletin board across from the condominium elevator. He spent the weekend crafting what he would say about Deborah wanting a divorce, and the whole time he was word-smithing, he... Continue Reading →
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Velu had seen enough Hollywood romcoms and TV sitcoms to know exactly what it meant when an attractive woman lingered at her doorway and asked a man to come up for coffee. The perilous possibilities behind such an invitation were not lost on him. But as a twenty-nine-year-old virgin from a traditional Hindu family who... Continue Reading →
written By in Barcelona, I bought tickets for the flamenco show for 8:00 but we really need to leave by at least 6:30 to have a drink in the salon if we want to take the Rodalies the ticket machines can be quite finicky and the email said to be there at 7:30 and we... Continue Reading →
written By there is a tank of giant sea crabs the largest arthropod in the world that lives 2,000 feet below the sea devouring collapsed whale fall and I saw online somewhere very far away they discovered three new species of ookie gloopy creatures and despite the belugas next door, named Yulka and Kula and... Continue Reading →
It was near Memorial Day when she went into the earth along with her neighbor and friend who died a month or so after she did. This is in the frozen North where winter burials are postponed until the ground thaws. I’d given Carolyn a red rose to toss onto her mother’s coffin after it... Continue Reading →
Nowadays, nobody’s impressedwhen I tell them I met Betty Friedan.Remember her? Author ofThe Feminine Mystique? She wasfalling-down drunk, foamingat the mouth, apparently performingher parody of toxic masculinity. We’re celebrating my granddaughter’sthird birthday, watching her tear opena gift from one of her Cuban-Americangrand-aunts, a Disney Princess kit,clip-on plastic earrings, a plastic tiara,& best of all, a... Continue Reading →
A few months ago, on a hot summer evening in Madrid, Spain, I attended a talk by the author of Anima Fatua, Anna Lidia Vega Serova and the translator of her novel from Spanish to English, Robin Munby. A member of the audience asked Vega how much of her own story was reflected in that... Continue Reading →
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