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Weekly Contest #350
After the Gala This isn’t so bad: that was my last thought before falling asleep. I had many reasons not to accept this award. I’m not a public speaker, I’m embarrassed by my corded face, and, above all, the museum was a four-hour bus-ride from New York. (Driving, of course, wasn’t an option.) But the young man who met me at the station had lovely green eyes, and the museum staff had booked me a charming room in a Victorian bed-and-breakfast just outside of Burlington – a back room, away from the sound of traffic. The proprietor,...
Weekly Contest #332
Harvest Riding home from work on the N train, Marsha tries to channel her yoga teacher. Stay in the moment, she thinks to herself. Notice your feelings. Sit with them. She homes in on the bitter cluster lodged in her stomach, a nesting doll of grievances, and studies it layer by layer: anger, then sadness, then guilt, until she uncovers the hard knot of exhaustion at the core. She’s tired. Of the urine-soaked subways, of the smell of salted cod that wafts into her windows from the Jamaican restaurant down the street, of her job. Every day, ...
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