Fiction
Living with an Alcoholic
1 – Powerlessness, when I realized I was powerless over alcohol, my life changed. As we arrived at the airport, the kids broke into hysterics. I had never left them for more than a few days, either when they went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house, or once after my Dad suffered a stroke, I went […]
The Magic of Chocolate Chip Cookies
Butter. Flour. Sugar. No, wait. Brown sugar. Both? Yes. That’s it. Don’t cry. Don’t do it. The tattered recipe card, sepia tones creeping in from the crumbling edges, sat propped against the toaster. The fading scrawl crawling across the face of the card contained the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe – or so legend had […]
ORANGE JUICE
This mess has teeth and you’re too wide awake and alive and broke and out so he says he could do half now, half when you get paid Friday, if that works
Baggage
“Mom, do you know where my green sweater is?” I asked, rummaging through my closet. My room was in a state of disarray, clothes and hangers thrown haphazardly on the unmade bed, papers and pens strewn over the desk, sunglasses and coins and random knick-knacks stockpiled on the bedside dresser. My red suitcase with the […]
