Post Views: 1 My name is Ensley Meyers, and I’m 29 years old.Packaging Three weeks ago, at my own baby shower, my mother-in-law handed me an envelope and announced to fifty guests that it contained a list of forty-seven reasons her son should divorce me. My husband laughed. The room laughed. I didn’t. I opened […]
Post Views: 143 Not long ago, I gave my husband one of my kidneys. I didn’t hesitate. When the transplant coordinator asked if I was sure, I said, “Test me first. I don’t care what it takes.” I believed love meant sacrifice. I believed saving his life would bind us closer. Two days after surgery, […]
Post Views: 61 John Travolta is a renowned actor who is best known for his stellar performances. Over the years, he won several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. He began his acting career […]
Post Views: 237 I lay perfectly still, letting the morphine soften my breathing and slacken my limbs, pretending it had taken me completely under. It hadn’t. The room smelled of antiseptic and something metallic, like fear disguised as cleanliness. Machines hummed. My heart monitor kept steady time. And through the haze, I heard Ethan lean […]
Post Views: 684 The overnight flight from Chicago to London carried 243 passengers across the Atlantic like a quiet secret. Most of the cabin was asleep—heads tilted against headrests, thin airline blankets pulled up to chins, seatback screens throwing that soft blue glow onto faces that weren’t really watching anything. In 8A, a Black man […]
Post Views: 657 He walked right to the champagne bucket—silver, sweating, packed with melting ice—and dropped that book straight in like it was garbage he didn’t want on his hands.Books & Literature The band was still playing. The tent lights were warm and golden. Newport ocean air drifted in, salty and expensive, the kind of […]
Post Views: 493 My son had only been back at kindergarten for a week when he climbed into the car, buckled halfway into his seat, and said it like it was ordinary. “Mom, Ethan came to see me.” Ethan had been dead for six months. The parking lot noise faded into a dull hum. I […]
Post Views: 686 My name is Harold, a retired Marine who now spends most afternoons on his porch, trading battlefield memories for quiet neighborhood routines. When a new family moved in across the street—a father, mother, teenage son, and young daughter—they seemed like any other suburban household. The father, David, carried himself with purpose. The […]
Post Views: 50 Actor Tom Noonan, known for memorable roles in films including Manhunter, Heat and The Monster Squad, has died at 74. The Monster Squad director Fred Dekker announced Noonan’s death in a Facebook post, saying the actor died Saturday. “It’s with great sadness that I share the passing of Tom Noonan,” Dekker wrote. […]
Post Views: 397 My name is Harold, a retired Marine who now spends most afternoons on his porch, trading battlefield memories for quiet neighborhood routines. When a new family moved in across the street—a father, mother, teenage son, and young daughter—they seemed like any other suburban household. The father, David, carried himself with purpose. The […]