![You and You and the White Sofa](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/madeleine-470x140.jpg)
While the view was magnificent, no one had enjoyed looking out the window of apartment 2G of 110 East End Avenue in several years. While…
![Luis](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LUIS-470x140.jpg)
We experienced our first hurricane in that house on Frangipani Street, and luckily, you were too little to remember any of it. Hurricane Luis was…
![Fugue](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Thinned blood gushed from the wound. His stomach a mash-tun, his head spun madly. God fucking…shit Ruined! That was the only thing from Berlin A…
![Vagaries of Solitude](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/solitude-470x140.jpg)
The thoughts of suicide cross my mind too often these days. In fact they began surfacing soon after your death, but I managed to thwart…
![The Death Of One Thousand Cuts](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fire-470x140.jpg)
There is a red pen in her hand. The lights are still on as Elizabeth opens her eyes. Enough light to read under. Her face…
![Betrayal](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Untitled-1-470x140.jpg)
Professor George Wallace complained to everyone about teaching in the big lecture room in Gilman Hall. He wore a red cashmere scarf to class in…
![Gang Fight at The Quinceañera](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quinceneara-470x140.jpg)
I don’t like photos because they literally turn people into posers. When someone wants to take a picture, everyone stops what they are doing and…
![In Bloom](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/azalea-470x140.jpg)
The azaleas died every winter, and every spring Asha would extract the brittle bushes and plant a new set in the same bed. Her husband,…
![The Bookseller](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bookseller-470x140.jpg)
I suppose that it seems rather extraordinary that I have spent my entire life surrounded by stories but have never before been tempted to pen…
![A Long Haul](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
They pulled Leona away from Ted’s open casket and accused her in loud angry whispers of laughing during her husband’s viewing. Leona’s cardigan was bunched…
![Through the Motions](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/motions-470x140.jpg)
Sometimes, while grabbing coffee or during her lunch break, Kate would twist her wedding ring off and sit at a table by the door, watching…
![Caesar and His People](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/caesar-470x140.jpg)
The phone rings like it always does and Kate answers it like she always does. She turns her freckled face in my direction and glances…
![Screaming for Colin Blake](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/colinblake-470x140.jpg)
First was the light. It grew from beneath the eave of the porch as the fluorescents flashed to life. She waved the moths away as…
![Movie Money](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/moviemoney-470x140.jpg)
Aunt Gertrude had had no education—had been, due to the poverty and ignorance of her family, virtually a waif—but possessed noticeable innate intelligence. She kept…
![Waiting by the Door](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/waitingbydoor-470x140.jpg)
When Roma first walked to the door, its face looked grim and unyielding. Despite the peeling green paint, it stood guard over the old house…