The room was pitch black, the kind of heavy silence that usually means deep sleep. But I was awake. I had been tossing and turning for an hour, sensing a …
Title: The Chicken Nugget Mistress: A Story About the Night I Almost Assaulted a Delivery Driver Because I Thought He Was Here to Steal My Husband Read More
The photo frame on my nightstand is face down. I can’t bear to look at it. It’s a picture of Lily at her high school graduation, wearing the cap and …
Title: The DNA Veto: A Story About Raising a Child for Fifteen Years, Only to Be Erased Because I Didn’t Share Her Blood Type Read More
The photo frame on my nightstand is face down. I can’t bear to look at it. It’s a picture of Lily at her high school graduation, wearing the cap and …
Title: The DNA Veto: A Story About Raising a Child for Fifteen Years, Only to Be Erased Because I Didn’t Share Her Blood Type Read More
The smell of bleach is what I remember most about those years. It was the scent of my second job, the one I went to after my 9-to-5 shift ended. …
Title: The Poverty Pantomime: A Story About Working Two Jobs to Feed a Husband Who Was Secretly a Rich Man Waiting for His Cue to Leave Read More
I packed his bag with love. I included his favorite books, a journal, and a note telling him I believed in him. “I just need time, Sarah,” he had said, …
Title: The Solitary Confinement Trap: A Story About the “Space” I Gave Him to Heal, Which He Used to Hide Every Dollar We Owned Read More
The cheap laminate of our first kitchen table used to stain my elbows while I cut coupons. I remember the sound of the scissors—snip, snip, snip—slicing fifty cents off a …
Title: The ROI of a Wife: A Story About Ironing Shirts and Clipping Coupons for a Man Who Treated Our Marriage Like a Penny Stock He Couldn’t Wait to Dump Read More
We didn’t have a “power couple” beginning. We had a studio apartment with a radiator that clanked and a diet consisting mostly of pasta and hope. I believed in him …
Title: The Starter Wife: A Story About Eating Ramen so He Could Wear Armani, and the Day He Decided My Thrift Store Values Didn’t Match His Boardroom Ambitions Read More
I helped him pick out his tie. It was a deep blue silk, the one I gave him for his birthday. He was nervous about seeing everyone again. I kissed …
Title: The Runner-Up Prize: A Story About the Man Who Loved Me for 18 Years, Until He Found Out His First Choice Was Finally Available Read More
We called it “The Surrender.” It happened on a Friday night, over a bottle of wine we had been too afraid to drink for years because of “egg quality.” We …
Title: The Broken Vessel: A Story About Surviving a Decade of Infertility Battles, Only to Be Traded in for a Woman Who worked on the First Try Read More
The prayer rug was soft under my knees, but the words were still foreign on my tongue. I recited them anyway. I did it for him. My father hadn’t spoken …
Title: The Sponsorship Deal: A Story About Changing My God and My Country for a Man Who Just Needed a Signature Read More