Tag: death

black bird flying in the sky

The Boys

Fiction(ish), Parenting

The sun shone brightly that early summer day as June hung the wash out to dry. Wet fabrics drooped over the edges of the thin white laundry basket and she sang to herself as she hung the baby’s clothes first, the older boys’ next. Tiny outfits, mostly white—a silly color that required extra labor to […]

June 3, 2021
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