The Last Straw At the supermarket, I found it. The Princess Aurora doll my seven-year-old daughter Emma had been dreaming of for half a year. Not just any Princess Aurora […]
The Porcelain Crown The porcelain plate struck my forehead with such force that for a moment I thought I’d been shot. White shards exploded across the ballroom like shrapnel, scattering […]
The Empty Porch Chapter 1: The Locked Door My 9-year-old daughter spent weeks helping plan her cousin’s party. She spent all her savings on decorations. On the day, we arrived […]
The Birthday Gift Today is my seventy-first birthday, and the only present my son gave me was a fractured bone and a locked door. It wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t […]
The Empty Pews Chapter 1: The Wedding March to Nowhere The wedding hall glittered under thousands of golden fairy lights, but my side of the aisle looked painfully empty. It […]
