Fiction
Pandemic School, Part 7
Connie is better. Caleb is better. The whole world is inhaling more easily. A new year has begun. But…everything is still difficult; nothing is as it once was. Perhaps it never will be again. My history teacher keeps drawing parallels between our times and the World Wars. Each worldwide collision with our mortality left society… Read more »
Pandemic School, Part 6
My body sat motionless in front of my computer screen. My ears vaguely registered my world history teacher’s droning. My eyes glazed from the blue haze emanating from my laptop. My mind and heart floated far away, next to my best friend, her body also motionless. A ventilator breathed for her. I sucked in a… Read more »
Pandemic School Part 5
Texts from Connie’s Mom
Pandemic School Part 4
The worst has happened – Maddie finds out that Constance’s brother has tested positive for COVID-19.
Pandemic School Part 3
As Maddie and Constance start online “pan-school,” they struggle with the life and death issues that are now a part of our every day existence. The first day of pan-school went more smoothly than anyone anticipated. The new technology platform adopted by our school district during the summer months was intuitive and seamless. Aside from… Read more »
Pandemic School Part 2
Maybe we have found what truly matters after all.
Pandemic School
My friends and I called it “pan-school”
Life’s Work – a fragment
I recently felt compelled to write something…a story, a novel, who knows?…about my own life. But not really. While I may have had some similar experiences to my main character, I never felt the shock and pain described for Margaret. What’s below is a piece of what I have planned. Let me know what you… Read more »
