The Correspondent

The Correspondent

Gilbert’s dying. It became the whole thing. You, Bruce and Fiona, my brother, our friends, my work, the house, our life, all of that was sitting on the sidelines, but I was in the ring wrestling, bloody, half-dead, with Gill’s death. Parenting the other two, trying to...
Courting The Wild Twin

Courting The Wild Twin

What is life like when you don’t know what it is you’re marrying? Harshly put, it implies you are naive. Gullible. Didn’t read that small print. A terrible deal occurs in the fairy tale The Handless Maiden, when a father barters away his daughter to a demon by not...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...
Strength To Love

Strength To Love

Let us consider, first, the need for a tough mind, characterized by incisive thinking, realistic appraisal, and decisive judgment. The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The...
“Why Do I Love” You, Sir?

“Why Do I Love” You, Sir?

“Why do I love” You, Sir?  Because—  The Wind does not require the Grass  To answer—Wherefore when He pass  She cannot keep Her place.  Because He knows—and  Do not You—  And We know not—  Enough for Us  The Wisdom it be so—  The Lightning—never asked an...