Day In Life ~ Mercy Carr by Paula Munier

“Take care of my dog.” That was the last thing Martinez said to me on that terrible day in Afghanistan, the day he died and I got shot and Elvis got depressed. Now here we are, me and the bomb-sniffing Belgian shepherd, home in Vermont. There are no...

Day In Life ~ Zoe Zola by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

I don’t’ like mornings. Not early morning. Not middle morning. Maybe because my Schnauzer, Feda (who is a Feminist dog and doesn’t like the mailman) starts barking as soon as she hears him pushing letters through the mailbox. So that puts me on US Post Office time to...

Day In Life ~ Felicity O’Brien by Susan Oleksiw

My name is Felicity O’Brien, and I should warn you my life is anything but exciting. For example, this morning I’m touching up the sign at the end of my driveway. With my dad in a home, as we call it out here in West Woodbury, I’m now the sole owner of Tall Tree Farm,...

Day In Life ~ Thomas Lynch by Stephanie Gayle

This is. . .an interview? Has it started? Oh. Let me guess. You want to know how it is to be the first gay police chief in Connecticut, right? That’s what everyone wants to know. I’ll tell you. It’s annoying. Everyone asks that question, over and over. They don’t ask...

Day In Life ~ Destiny King by Sally Carpenter

I’m black and I’m beautiful. Growing up in south Chicago didn’t give me a whole lot of options and I got in with the wrong crowd. When I was doing time in the 1960s, Dash Hanover came to see me and offered me a job with a spy agency called SIAMESE (Special...