My name is Ivonne Carter. I am fifty-four years old. For more than three decades, I worked night shifts as a nurse, double…
The cardboard beneath my back had grown soft from three months of body heat and the occasional leak from the Honda’s sunroof. I…
On Christmas Eve, I came home without warning. I found my daughter shivering outside at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. No blanket to keep her…
At 5:00 in the morning, I woke up right on schedule, just like always. Outside the window, it was still pitch-black, with only…
Hey everyone. Tonight we begin with something quiet, eerily quiet. A woman stands at the back of a church while her husband’s casket…
The raindrops tapped softly against the windowpane. I stood in the kitchen, the chef’s knife in my hand falling in a steady rhythm…
You know, there are moments in life that punch you in the gut and leave you gasping for air. For me, one of…
My daughter-in-law slept with my husband a week before we signed the divorce papers. I pretended to know nothing. At the meeting, the…
I was on my way to the meeting about my husband’s inheritance. As I got into my car in the dim concrete of…
At the family dinner, my daughter-in-law came up to me and whispered, “I’m pregnant with your husband’s baby, you tacky old woman.” I…