Nov 14, 2025 | A Day In My Life
The storm ends and I flee the house. That’s right, flee. A house that I’ve crossed two states to reach. A journey that required me to bury my irrational fear of deep water and drive onto a ferry as the only vehicle on this morning’s crossing. This house where I will...
Nov 13, 2025 | A Day In My Life
Hey! How are you? I haven’t seen you in a month of Sundays. Did you see Aunt Adeline downstairs? Yes, she’s still dressing in Regency clothes and running the town behind the mayor’s back. I love her to bits! Have a seat. You heard about the bottling plant closing last...
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...
