I The twenty-two guests, having been treated to some very good wine and hors d’Oeuvres, were now cautiously descending the wide and elegant staircase of Imagone Funeral Home to the main parlor on the first floor. A spring snowstorm was fussing outside, with large flakes blowing every which way under an ambivalent late afternoon […]
The man Sarah Martin thought she once loved had become a lazy, manipulative user, and constantly dwelling on her decade of failure with him wasn’t doing her any favors. It had certainly kept her from living in the moment. She finally decided to salvage what she could and refashion a meaningful life for herself before it was too
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. We
 Click for: Summaries and Links to Previous Chapters 17 I didn’t like to think about why I’d waited decades to return to Barrington. My mother abused prescription drugs and alcohol and Dad had a hard time keeping a job—could high school have been anything I was eager to revisit? Leaving from the airport in San Francisco,
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A Naming I stood, and around me the grass bent, paying homage to the breeze, nodding tufted tips back and forth. The land undulated before me, an ocean of greens and browns, rills of grassland responding to wind-play. I turned to regard the man beside me. He stood still, gazing at my with blue interested
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