The Fourteenth Letter And the Morning My Lost 1962 Sweetheart Walked Back Into My Life
The linoleum under the folding chairs at the senior center had that particular scuffed greenish tint that only...
Author: Liliana J. Phillips
The Downtown Milwaukee Condo She Called Her Wedding Gift And the Morning My Sister Realized Her Deception Was Over
The highway out of Milwaukee had that flat, metallic grayness to it that usually meant a lake storm...
The Return Address and the Morning My Mother Tried to Buy Back Twenty Years
The county office smelled of cold floor wax and stale cigarette smoke from the staff lounge down the...
The Game He Wouldn’t Leave And the Morning My Ten-Week Marriage Collapsed Into Betrayal
I got the math wrong about what a person can endure before something inside them simply hardens into...
The Date Inside the Ring and the Morning My Twenty-Six-Year Marriage Collapsed Into Fraud
The house always felt quietest right around seven in the morning before the traffic picked up on the...
The Church Pew on the Porch and the Morning My Twenty-Eight-Year Ritual Came Back to Hold Me
The cold on the kitchen linoleum always seemed to settle right into the joints of my knees first...
The Roof and the Reaching Hand That Left Me Choosing Between My Son and My Granddaughter
There are two wills in Attorney Vance’s office downtown, and both of them have my name signed at...
The Dress in the Church Foyer And the Morning My Twenty-Year-Old Heartbreak Finally Made Sense
The gravel in the church parking lot always made a particular crunching sound under heavy leather boots, but...
The Safe Deposit Box And the Morning My Brother’s Seven-Year Fraud Finally Caught Up With Him
Seven years is a long time to let a thief sit at your Sunday dinner table and carve...
The Table She Couldn’t Leave and the Morning My Wife Realized Her Friend Used Her as Bait
The rain on our front porch always made a particular hollow sound against the cedar siding when the...