The roses were blooming, all at once, on both sides of the sidewalk: red, yellow, pink. It was too much, the profusion. Jessica closed...

My father’s last words were to my sister-in-law Melanie. “Take care of Larry,” he told her. Soon after, he took a turn for the worse, and...

As was often the case, Dorothy’s first thought when she woke up was, “Nothing new under the sun.” She’d had the thought a few times...

I fly up the on-ramp like a thousand butterflies lifting from the earth. Merging, I hear honking. It sounds like an elephant trumpeting....

He had some questions. He wondered if there was an edge to the universe. He knew it was expanding, always expanding. But way far out...

We were dancing in the streets; I mean literally. Moms with babies in their arms and a glass of Bacardi and Coke in their hands, laughing...

It didn’t take long for us to be on hugging terms. We liked each other right away when we met in the writers’ group, and started meeting...

Gretchen gave a moment of consideration to the idea of walking out the door, across the packed dirt yard to the sidewalk, and looking up...