Month: October 2020

orchid and rose with buildings in background

As She Lay Dying

Family

I was buying a bed as my grandmother lay dying. A bed and matching nightstands, for Christ’s sake, off of Facebook. The passage of time alters memories, but I remember securing the transaction only a moment before I sensed a change in the rhythm of her breathing — the change that signaled her last breath […]

October 23, 2020
swing across green trees

Motorcycle Man

Childhood

This is a re-telling of a True Story. As a writing exercise, I reimagined a childhood memory from the point of view of someone else who was there. My childhood was fairly normal for the 80s and 90s — barely worthy of an Afterschool Special — but there were a few weird occurrences like this […]

October 9, 2020