The Living Room

My creative non-fiction piece “The Living Room” was published in Dreamers Magazine (issue 8: March-June 2021) and is now available on their site, Dreamers Creative Writing. If you know me or knew Susan, this is, as I’ve been told “a tough read.” Nonetheless, I hope you’ll read it. A couple of people have expressed concern […]

Ways to the End

Susan’s mother Jane died in December. My grandmother died two years ago. Susan died six years ago. I’m the age Susan was when she died . . . I’m pleased that The MOON magazine decided to publish my piece, “Ways to the End,” in their April 2019 issue Death | The future we seldom speak […]

Christmas Eve, 2012

[I wrote this on Christmas Eve, 2012] The theme song of Star Trek The Next Generation, Susan’s ringtone, starts to play. Kim answers the phone. “Uh, hello?” Who could be calling from Susan’s phone? The phone is on Kim’s desk where it’s been since Susan died, exactly three weeks ago. Caller: “Hi!” Kim: “Um, who’s this?”

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