My Neighbor Let The Church Pray For Her Husband’s Fake Cancer Diagnosis
Gloria and Ray have lived in the house two doors down from me for forty-one years. They were...
Author: amomana
My Son Stopped His Wedding To Tell Everyone What I Did In 2019
The Hawthorne banquet hall on Route 9 smells like lilies and expensive floor wax. It is a sterile,...
My Son’s Bedtime Prayer Revealed A Secret I Am Still Trying To Survive
I have started and stopped writing this post five times tonight. My hands will not stop shaking. Putting...
My Neighbor Kayla Was Hiding Something Under Her Floorboards And Now He Knows
The blue Danish butter cookie tin felt heavier than it had any right to be. It was cold,...
My Daughter Told Me Fourteen Times And I Missed Every Single Warning
The smell of bleach and stale hospital coffee is usually enough to make me feel steady. It is...
My Granddaughter’s Name Was In The Janitor’s Private Logbook And I Still Can’t Breathe
The cafeteria at Pine Ridge Elementary always smelled like floor wax and overcooked tater tots. It was a...
The Friday Ritual
Confession: For 22 years, my husband’s weekly roses were proof of our perfect marriage. Then the florist retired....
My Husband Warmed Our Car For Fifty Years And I Never Knew Why
For fifty-two years, my Orval went out ten minutes early on every single cold morning. He would head...
The Sunday Visitor Who Wasn’t Mine and Why He Finally Stopped Coming
My hand was still resting on the cool metal of the screen door handle when I saw the...
I Went To My Lover’s Baby Shower Knowing He Had Another Woman
I am sitting on my kitchen floor because the chair feels too steady. The linoleum is cold against...