Denise, 2006 The winter of ’86 was especially bitter. An early December blizzard left mountains of dirty brown snow on the shopping center parking lots and later snows froze on the roads and sidewalks. The holidays had been particularly restless ones for Dan, who disliked holidays, birthdays, and anything requiring emotional participation. So one morning […]
Category: Denise’s writing – fiction
Denise’s short stories and other fiction
The Face of the Shepherd
Denise, ~1995 Annie hung up the phone. Her mother was crying again. Her mother always cried at Christmas. Widowed at the age of thirty-five with two small children, she had always been miserable throughout the Christmas season, and cried whenever someone gave her a gift because she felt she couldn’t give one back, and she […]
My Sister
Denise, December 2001 All of December of that year, I was waiting for my sister to die. We had visited her in November when the brain tumor has begun to grow again, making a slight bulge in the side of her temple. I cried all the way home at the thought of my funny, sharp, […]