Jul 19, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Hey, I’m Joss Miller and I’m a barista at Sugar Creek Café in Charleston, South Carolina. The café isn’t trendy and sleek like the popular franchise coffeehouses. More like walking into someone’s home. I heard the chimes of the café door indicating a customer had...
Jul 17, 2024 | A Day In My Life
I pick off the dead blossoms of purple and pink and survey the tall grasses that sequester my secret garden within a wall of feathery plumes—a serene escape hidden behind my seaside cottage and the source of my homegrown poisons. Dew clings to delicate petals like...
Jul 15, 2024 | A Day In My Life
God, I’m forty-eight today. How did this happen? My body looks much the same as it did for the last twenty years—to me. We never see our reflection quite the way someone else does, right? But there are subtle differences. I see my once athletic build retreating into a...
Jul 12, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Have you ever broken a law because you know in your heart that the law is wrong? Not just wrong, but evil? I have, and I’m not ashamed. The law I must ignore is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. That despicable legislation states that even in free states, citizens must...
Jul 11, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Relationship: Irene’s billionaire French lover Oui. I am Chance Charpentier of Aix-en-Provence. Excuse me, but I must fix Irene’s patisserie. She will waken soon, and she wants coffee and raspberry jam as soon as she wakes. Excusez-moi? Yes, yes, I am a billionaire,...
Jul 10, 2024 | A Day In My Life
I’m in my Explorer idling down Hogpath Road when my dispatcher’s voice cracks over the radio. “Chief, I’ve got a 10-54.” I pick up my mike. “What’s the twenty on that?” “Dogleg Road past the bridge.” It’s a curvy stretch of asphalt with a fifty-five mile per hour...
