The Price of a Promise: How Three Years of Secret Support Collapsed at Sunday Dinner
Three years, four months, and twelve days. That is exactly how long I kept a ledger of every...
Author: Liliana J. Phillips
The Paddy Ring: How a Metal Detector Find in Vietnam and a Young Man Named David Closed a Fifty-Four-Year Circle on My Front Porch
The dead bolt of my front door always had this dry, metallic hitch to it whenever the humidity...
The Weight of a Rusty Coin: How Being Fired and a Velvet Box Broke Arthur’s Empire
The lobby glass of Sterling Technologies always held that particular gray reflection on a Tuesday morning, mirroring the...
The Price of a Mother: How Nine Years of Wire Transfers Collapsed at My Hospital Bed
The sterile smell of a hospital room gets into your clothes and stays there long after you leave,...
The Letters of Lake Street: How Sixty-Three Years of Silence and a Bingo Card Restored My Past
The linoleum on the floor of the Starlite community center always had that particular, hollow sound under a...
The Weight of Brass: How My Fired Office Job and a Homeless Woman’s Rusty Coin Broke Arthur’s Empire
The morning frost had that particular gray crust that usually meant the water mains down on Fourth Street...
How a Metal Detector Find in Vietnam and a Young Man Named David Closed a Fifty-Four-Year Circle on My Front Porch
The kettle on the back burner was whistling a thin, reedy tune that had been rattling my nerves...
The Price of a Florida Thanksgiving: How Twenty-Two Years of Embezzlement Collapsed at Christmas Dinner
The telephone on the kitchen wall started its familiar tinny ring at 8:45 on a Tuesday morning, right...
The 15-Minute Mile: How a High-Speed Escort and a Father’s Promise Defied Medical Odds
Twenty-four years on the county blacktop teaches you how to read a set of headlights long before the...
The Price of Blood and Ledger: How Eight Years of Wire Transfers Collapsed at My Front Door
The linoleum in my parents’ kitchen always had that faint, permanent smell of scorched lard and cheap ammonia,...