Lainey entered the wedding reception with high expectations. She was overdue. The year had brought her enough angst to fuel a college kegger. Tonight, she had a babysitter, a hotel room, dancing shoes, and little doubt she would even the score. She found her name place card in the most delightful of places: at the […]
Lainey
Book Excerpt: Building a Home
Here, an excerpt from my novel and work-in-progress, Monday Night Bike Club: They built their house, officially, in the middle of nowhere. They spent hours after work, after college classes, before breakfast and during lunch working on the house. It was his idea, a terrible one she thought. Her dad had looked at Lainey and said, “Your […]
Book Excerpt: Birth of son
Here, an excerpt from my novel and work-in-progress: Her mother had bought her a fluffy red robe with yellow and brown and white kitties embroidered on the sleeves and back. She would wear it as she paced the hospital floors, waiting for her first son to be born. She would wear it later, when the […]
Saturday morning
It’s Saturday morning and they have nowhere to be. Lainey turns to her husband and curls around his broad, warm back. He will sleep through it. She rests her cheek on his back until it starts to sweat. She rolls away then, wishing he’d wake up but not wanting to be the reason. She looks […]
Skate skiing
Snow had fallen so delicately on the ski trail that it appeared as if the groomer had never passed, the crystals falling into the grooved corduroy as if hand-placed every half-inch to fill in the pattern. She was only a month into skate skiing. Just two weeks ago, she had stood on the trail, barely […]