This happened back in March of 2010, when the Philadelphia train station still had the kind of information board that clickety-clacked as the various gate assignments rolled up.
Could a building sweat? If someone were to ask him, Walter O’Brien would say no.
Lightning flashed, and Athena Strange began counting.
It is the middle of a hot and clammy afternoon at Police Headquarters in Algiers.
She stood before us, without notes, books or nerves. The lectern was occupied by her handbag.
The thirty-year-old mother of Madeline Zott rose before dawn every morning and felt certain of just one thing: her life was over.
Pippa Black stared out the kitchen window at the dusty sun-beaten paddocks beyond.
Why is it that just when you think you have all the answers, life starts asking all the wrong questions?
How this new condition changes language, not we or us or ours but I and me and mine, mine alone the hollow hours.
I’m sitting in my therapy room across from a young woman.
At the age of somewhere between forty and forty-two — he didn’t know exactly how old he was — Wilde finally found his father.
For us the voyage was a marvel. We were seeing the world: the Rock of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, elephants in the main street of Colombo.
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once.
Hal smiled to himself as the Heron cut smoothly through the water, rising and falling gracefully; swooping over the small, even waves and sending showers of spray high into the air on either side of her bows as she sliced down into the troughs.
‘Hello, Vogue! ¡Buenos días! This is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I am here to walk you through my skincare and red lip routine.’
In a cramped hotel room high above the prayer-flag-strewn streets of Thamel, the main tourist district of Kathmandu, Nepal, Cecily snapped her laptop shut.
In February 2019, Bob Hawke sat on the balcony of his sprawling multi-level home at 3 Minimbah Road, Northbridge, overlooking a gleaming Sydney Harbour.
AnnieLee had been standing on the side of the road for an hour, thumbing a ride, when the rain started falling in earnest.