Interesting Stories

The midday sun beat down on the pavement, but for Martha, the world felt cold. She sat on the corner

I was fifty-eight, a widower, working nights at a lumber yard in North Carolina, when my daughter Kimberly

Ten years is a long time. Long enough to lose 140 pounds. Long enough to legally change my first name

In the winter of 2003, a drunk driver hit my family’s minivan on an icy bridge in Vermont.

I’m a school librarian in a small Ohio town. For six years, I’ve read stories to other people’

Julian Vance had everything—power, a business empire, and a sprawling estate. But a year ago, a mysterious

The evening at the elite “Summit” restaurant was meant to be flawless. The city’

My grandmother Ruthanne raised me from the age of four, after I lost my parents in a house fire I was

My kids were born two years apart, but the doctors used to say they moved through the world like a pair.

The last time I saw my daughter Wren, she was climbing into the church van in the parking lot of Fellowship

When my husband Frank died three years ago, I couldn’t bring myself to visit our lake cabin anymore.

The Grand Astor Ballroom breathed luxury and coldness. At the annual charity gala, the city’s elite gathered

My grandmother, Eleanor, raised me after my parents died. She also raised my cousin, Peter, like her own son.

I’d worn hearing aids since I was six, thick ones that peeked out from under my hair no matter

Eli and I met when we were seven. He was the boy who split his last juice box with me on the bus and

I was holding two hot dogs and a bag of chips when my life split into a before and after. Wren and I

I was thirty-one when I signed papers to marry a man I’d never met outside a visitation room.

Everyone stood when I walked down the aisle.   Two hundred guests, my father beaming beside me, Michael