“I’m bored, Mom.” My twelve-year-old daughter, Mita, spat out the words. I knew this was a prelude to the next question, and it came predictably …
I Should’ve Told Her by Maggie Bowyer
I could hear my best friend down the hall. The room was still dark. I didn’t know how I’d gotten there or where you’d gone. …
The Man in the Moon by Emily Ward
Aberratus was born a proud man, keen and hungry for the delights of power, in a small town near the western shores of Bithynia. He …
The Blueness of the Sky by Malinda Dunlap Fillingim
My hands do not tremble as I thought they would. They remain steady on the steering wheel of my 1969 VW Bug, a car I …
Our Intruder by Julia Nunnally Duncan
That Sunday night in 1966, when I was nine, my father, mother, thirteen-year-old brother, and I watched The Ed Sullivan Show in our dark front …
Day 38 2014
Edward Monkton’s book is lovely, and Melissa has put it to music: [su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiELDUYnQfA” responsive=”no”]