Never could I have imagined as a poor peasant boy in China the turns my life would take – nor that the story of my life would one day reach and move readers and audiences around the world.
Whenever the shop bell chimed, Eda liked to guess: had they come to trade with their coin or their soul?
Downtown Drugstore had a bell on the door that made a single tink sound when you opened it.
It was the middle of June and the sun all day had kept right on shining with sweet mightiness.
‘She’ll hate it,’ Dennis probably said to Moose when she told him Leslie was going to Las Vegas.
‘How long will you be staying?’ asked the man behind the black marble counter.
After the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered New York City, where we lived most of the year, we decided to quarantine on Martha’s Vineyard with our two youngest children, then fifteen and twelve.
I am not late. I am absolutely not late. I can feel the heat rising in my cheeks and my heart beating at an unnaturally fast pace and I want to tell the fifty people who are turning to look at me that I was fifteen minutes early for the bus.
‘No.’ It’s a word I’ve heard more times in my life than I ever could’ve anticipated.
I fantasize about cutting him out of my will, making sure he doesn’t get a penny.
The children of Orlfen used to swap stories about what might happen if the Prince of Rostenburg ever returned.
