• Love Sent, Pebbles at The Delacorte

  by Kate Kaiser 08/16/2010

  When you lose someone so important to you, who feels larger than life, sometimes you act a little crazy while going through the grief. Maybe it is to counter the silence and life’s unfairness, but at the time, your actions can feel magically vibrant. This is one of those stories.
  The day was St. [...]

• Number 6 at the White House

  by Brea Tremblay 08/16/2010

  The front of the White House wasn’t that bad. The  reviews online had been awful but perhaps they’d been hasty. The doors were bright blue and no place with bright blue doors could be that bad.
  I heaved my suitcase over the step. At the train station, a frat boy had tried to help me [...]

• The Lucky One

  by Emily Azur 08/16/2010

  I celebrated my 60th birthday and my 25-year job anniversary the same year my employer accepted billions of TARP money. And then, on a bright July morning, I was laid off.
  I could pretend that it was because business was changing, as the notice letter said, or that there was a need to make more [...]

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