May 18, 2022
A Bionic Widow Drives in the Rain
If I cry, the road ahead blurs and I may cause harm to myself and others. The twisted ribbon of Route 25A winds along the Long Island Gold Coast and…
April 29, 2021
Collateral Damages
In the aftermath of frenzied texting: if he didn’t have a wife who had survived breast cancer, if they didn’t have children, if it wasn’t the High…
November 5, 2020
Hippocratic Oaths
“Don’t have an affair! It will shatter you!” A deathbed warning from my best friend was incredibly painful and oddly comforting. Surely it meant that…
July 12, 2020
Emily in Red
We were assembled haphazardly upon decrepit benches, sunken couches, and metal lawn furniture along the rambling front porch of Mirror Vale, a former…
July 15, 2019
Saved Bones
First, he attacked porgies in the seaside restaurant. Tonight, red snapper would be his victim. A whole fish, consumed with consummate care. As one…
March 10, 2019
When the Men We Don’t Marry Come to Find Us
I am haunting him. It isn’t my intention, but he just keeps summoning my presence during his daily commute on New Jersey Transit. As he stares…