Nov 12, 2025 | A Day In My Life
My name is Claire Fontaine. Sounds very French, right? Pair that with the French accent I woke up speaking after a workplace explosion scrambled my speech patterns, and people assume I grew up in Paris. The truth? I was born and raised in Caper Cove, California. I’m...
Nov 10, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Visitors to town this week could easily mistake Apple Station for a Scottish hamlet at the height of tourist season. With all the St. Andrew’s Cross flags flying and tartan swishing, you’d think you’d landed in Glasgow, not in a small town in Virginia’s Shenandoah...
Nov 7, 2025 | A Day In My Life
You’d think that a man would get used to the screaming. It had become a daily affair, varying in pitch and length but otherwise consistent. Sometimes, it would catch Tim by surprise and he’d forget who was making the sound altogether. It hadn’t been so long ago that...
Nov 6, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Hi, my name is Jackie Prescott, and this is my sister, Lauren Beniot and my niece, Melody Beniot. Together we inherited our great-uncle’s barbecue shack in Prairie Rose, Texas. We hadn’t seen him in years, so this was more than unexpected. He’d send the occasional...
Nov 5, 2025 | A Day In My Life
I’m staring out the window of my small apartment at the darkened parking lot beyond, filled with indecision. To be clear, indecision is not unusual for me—after all, I’ve just been dumped by my girlfriend of several years due to what she would probably describe as an...
Nov 4, 2025 | A Day In My Life
I’m not crazy. Probably. Believe me, until very recently I was living a completely normal life. I have a wonderful husband named Roy who is as supportive a man as I have ever met. I had – past tense – a steady job as a legal assistant at a well-established law firm in...
