I was organizing the papers in front of me. It was the first day of a new semester. The sudden and over-enthusiastic chatter of students entering the room caused me to glance back. That is when I saw her—sitting across the aisle; two rows back. Her dark brown eyes momentarily fixed on mine. In a…

While many dreams are unremarkable in nature, there are others that ‘may be’ prophetic. Example: I had a dream about searching for the right-sized sweatshirt in an unknown shop after discussing earlier that day whether the shirt I ordered online would fit or not. This dream is quite unremarkable. Whereas this dream—

I answer an old…

It was 6 am on Saturday morning. I was shoveling a sidewalk—at one of my part-time jobs. It was dark, it was snowing—many of the roads yet to be plowed and it was very quiet. There was a murmur off in the distance. It got louder and louder. I realized it was a woman sobbing…

Standing on a dark, quiet street in the city, I am drawn to movement in a picture window high above me. The apartment building is a vintage grey brick. Rolling dark clouds overhead warn of a storm. There are three young women in the third-story window. All three have straight coffee-brunette hair; cut in a…