Bewilderment
My Robin didn’t always sleep well. He wet the bed a few times a season, and it hunched him...
Tag: mother
The Aerodrome
“Mother you held me on your knee. Mother you worked for me. Mother, you taught me to toddle....
The Time of Our Singing
At home, her worst nightmare settles in for a double feature. Her mother insists she sit down for...
Descending Figure
PORTRAIT A child draws the outline of a body.She draws what she can, but it is white all...
Lanny
At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would...
French Exit
Malcolm was yet in his suite. He was speaking to Susan on the phone. “Let’s eat food, for lunch,”...
The Course of Love
Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their...
The Sound and the Fury
The car stopped, started, stopped again. Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s...
Alias Grace
My mother and Aunt Pauline were a dead clergyman’s daughters – a Methodist, he was – and it was...
Eileen
My mother never packed lunches for me to take to school when I was growing up. I’d sit and...
Forty Stories
Overnight To Many Distant CitiesIn London I met a man who was not in love. Beautiful shoes, black...
