The following is a novel excerpt by Sidsel Bang. It is winter. One of the early days of January. Thick chunks of snow are falling lightly from the sky. I am standing on the curb stones, staring at my black boots, which are now white, covered in snow. I tug my face deep into my […]
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Martini’s was a small family-run grocery store, just a five-minute drive from Grandmom’s house. I hadn’t been in yet that summer, what with all my softball practices and games. When we got there, Mr. Martini greeted my grandmother with a hug. She had been his teacher in high school, and had known my mom and […]
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That sun burned in an odd way that summer, hotter with wicked solar flares and meaner with intense magnetic disturbances. The crazy heat of it had crisped the skins of EmLee, Cathy, and Morry as they walked along doing nothing. Glad to reach the shade of the big magnolia, the thirteen-year-olds sprawled beneath its arching […]
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