A Day in the Life of Rowan Mundy by Wendy Corsi Staub

Like many other Hudson river towns, the once prosperous Mundy’s Landing fell into economic decline back in the ’70s, while I was growing up there as the feisty youngest of the four red-headed Carmichael kids. My parents were forced to work several jobs...

A Conversation with Sam Acquillo by Chris Knopf

My parents, the Acquillo people from Montreal, named me Sam. Not Samuel, and no middle name, which should tell you something. I only live in the Hamptons because my father built a shack back in the fifties on the Little Peconic Bay, in the North Sea area above...

More in the Life of Cyril Landry by J. Carson Black

The mirage in the center of the road resolved itself into three vehicles. Three Chevy Suburbans, approximately two miles ahead. All of them dark in color, grouped near the road’s junction with a ranch road that wandered off to the right. Cyril Landry glanced at the...

Tar Speaks by Laurien Berenson

Hey, how you doin’? My name is Champion Cedar Crest Scimitar, but most people just call me Tar. I’m a black Standard Poodle, which you probably already know if you’ve ever met my family because their house is filled with big black Poodles. Like six. Which outnumber...

A Day in the Life of Alfred Doolittle by D.E. Ireland

Let me introduce myself. The name’s Alfred Doolittle. You might have heard of my daughter Eliza if you’ve been in London this past year. The clever girl learned to speak and act like a lady, and passed herself off as a duchess at some fancy embassy ball. Lizzie...

A Day in the Life with Sidney Martin by Alice Loweecey

OMG baby! I know I’m supposed to be all mature and everything now that I’m a mom and married and running my own house and everything, but Jessamine is the sweetest, most perfect, most beautiful baby ever and she makes my life perfect! Don’t tell Olivier, my husband,...