That had been a year ago and I asked to go back to general assignment reporting. Eventually they let me and there I was in my 40s doing what I’d first done in my 20s, filling a shrinking news hole from a shrunken newsroom for a paper with a dwindling readership competing against bloggers.
Still, ‘Waiting for Godot’; Secret Road; Falling in Pair
To come, and Grow green The vineyards. To bless, and Swell the grapes To the core.
A Conversation Between a Scorned Mistress and a Useless Widow; Stone Fruit; Mary Janes; Five Stages of the Moon
I. I am the scorned mistress, says the scorned mistress nakedly. She gives up the brilliant golden burnish of girlhood in the time it takes for the motel bathwater to run dry.
A Calm and Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks
She starts her stories when her heroines are at a turning point, whether leaving a relationship or beginning a new one, fleeing a city or returning home, and shows that changing their situation gets them to where they need to go. Often her characters look to their heritage to lead the way, and a strong part of their heritage is language.
Dead Wrong
"Thanks, God. Thanks for the life you’ve given me, it wasn’t such a bad life. Dying at twenty-five isn’t so bad, it’s going out with a bang, right in the middle of the good part..."
Tuesdays; For Ophelias; Motherland; Backyards and BBQs; House Guests
You bought sunflower seeds, planted one for each of us. I watched you weed them until they grew four feet.