A Day in My Life ~ Detective Vera Li by Tracy Clark

Why did I become a cop? On a day like today, I really don’t know. Today is hard. Today, I have to look down into the face of a dead mother, a young woman with a baby just months old. God, she looks so young, so innocent. I don’t want to do this today. I don’t want to...

A Day in My Life ~ Maxine Gerimatter by Tish Bouvier

I used to think life slowed down after eighty. Turns out, it just changes its pace. I lived in my little brick cottage on the corner of Maple and Vine, brewed my morning coffee strong enough to melt a spoon, and tended my rose bushes like they were old friends. Then...

A Day in My Life ~ Henny Wiley by Michelle Bennington

Hey there, I’m Henny Wiley, and let me tell you—I’m all in a twist today. All I wanted this morning was a quiet breakfast: a slice of pumpkin spice cake, a hot cup of coffee, and some reruns of Law & Order: SVU. Benson and Stabler chasing down bad guys is my idea...

A Day in My Life ~ Mo Melnick by Michael Kardos

I don’t know what day of the week it was, and I don’t know what town we were in. It could’ve been any night, any town. It was soundcheck, and the soundman was angry because the sub shop had put capicola into his Italian sub when he’d specifically asked for no...

A Day in My Life ~ Lucy Ambrose by Christina Kovac

It’s impossible to talk about any day in my life without first mentioning Addie and Penelope and Estella. We’re best friends from college, newly graduated and sharing a Georgetown rowhouse, a stone’s throw from our alma mater. We have great parties and crap jobs and...

A Day in My Life ~ Courtney Kelly by Daryl Wood Gerber

Hi, I’m Courtney Kelly owner of Open Your Imagination, a fairy garden store in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. For the uninitiated, fairy gardens are whimsical miniature gardens decked out with plants and structures like fairy houses and castles or swings and slides....