Story Scroll

I came around the bend in the drive that afternoon and stopped the truck. Twenty-seven cars were parked on my grass. A DJ booth with speakers the size of refrigerators faced my tree line. A bouncy castle sat inflated in the center of the meadow, bright orange and yellow against the green, impossible and wrong […]

The fluorescent lights of St. Jude’s Medical Center hummed with their usual headache-inducing flicker at two in the morning. Nurse Rachel Bennett had learned to ignore them over ten years of graveyard shifts, but tonight something felt different. The emergency room vibrated with a tension she couldn’t quite name, centered entirely around bed four. Rachel […]

I should have known something was wrong when Melissa insisted on planning the whole family reunion herself. My daughter-in-law had never shown interest in family events before. Hell, she usually complained about having to attend them. But there she was, calling me every week with updates. “Mom Janet, I’ve booked the perfect venue. It’s going […]

The woman behind the reception desk at Rosewood Hall would not look at me directly. She kept her eyes somewhere between the glossy surface of the desk and the enormous floral arrangement beside her computer, as though the ranunculus could protect her from the conversation she was being forced to have. She had just told […]