The Caregiver Who Cut His Medication
At 2:14 in the afternoon on the Tuesday I came home from eleven days at my sister’s bedside in Wichita, I walked into my own… Read more
The Night Shift Years He Never Explained
By Nadia Cross — The boots were at the very back of the closet, behind the winter coats and a box of Mira’s old scarves… Read more
The Album That Proved My Mother Was There
I was scraping cold potato salad off a paper plate into the trash can behind the fairgrounds pavilion, three weeks out from twelve straight nights… Read more
The Key I Would Not Hand Over
At 2:47 in the afternoon on the Saturday of the Fourth of July weekend, with my four-year-old running a fever of a hundred point two… Read more
The Land She Tried To Erase Us From
The morning Lorna stood up in the basement of Zion Lutheran and told two hundred of our neighbors that my brother and I had never… Read more
The Boy Who Saved the Widow Next Door
I was fourteen the first time I knocked on Mrs. Abernathy’s door, and I only did it because my mom made me. That’s the honest… Read more