A day in the life with Lena London by Julia Buckley

Return to Blue Lake: I’ve been in Blue Lake for months now. I arrived on a stormy October day; the town was beautiful, even in the rain, and I fell in love with my employer, the famous novelist Camilla Graham, along with her big house on the bluff. I fell in love with...

A day in the life with Allie Harper by Annie Hogsett

Last August I would have told you that my life would be perfect if I could find myself a nice, smart, hot, guy and enough money to get my car fixed. Well, bingo. As luck would have it, all I needed to do was show up at the bus stop across the street from Joe’s Super...

A day in the life with Katherine Goff by Susan C. Shea

Let’s take a summer day, the time of year in which Love & Death in Burgundy takes place, when the region is humming with tourists and vide-greniers. What are they? This free way to spend a Saturday happens when a town chooses a date to hold a flea market. Most of...

A day in the life with Aunty Lee by Ovidia Yu

No matter what some people say, I never go and look for trouble. Most of the time, trouble comes to me. Like this afternoon, Maisie Ong walked into my shop, ordered laksa, and started crying, “Aunty Lee, my life is hopeless!” Of course I asked, “What’s wrong?” People...

A day in the life of Pete Fernandez by Alex Segura

I’m not hungry. This is usually a bad sign. We’re at a table near the back of El Rinconcito—the “tiny corner”—a small Cuban place on 157th Avenue in West Kendall. It’s a warm day, the Miami temperatures clocking in no higher than 82. Balmy for the area, hellish and...