April 1, 1996
Their Story
And then in those afternoons that yet were to come after so many other events of that time and our days too had passed over into our dreams, even after […]
April 1, 1996
Midlife Heroines, “Older and Freer”
From Cultural Combat, The Politics of Middle Life Ⓒ 1996 by the author Part One. Constructing the Female Midlife in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction I think that in almost any culture […]
April 1, 1996
The Doctor and His Wife
At times he cannot touch her, grown tired of human skin, the soft tissue layered beneath. He catches himself holding her breasts, feeling for lumps. When they make love he […]
April 1, 1996
Stop the Car
"Stop the car—is that a deer?— that oval shape with two large ears." A deer's head—periscoped above the chest-high grass on the hillcrest that the local folks call Tony's Nose. […]
April 1, 1996
Delivering the Message
Hilda decided that, having kept it to herself this long, she would wait and tell him after he’d eaten. Otherwise he would halt (she knows him this well) with the […]