Another instructor, Gilbert Swan, arrived the week after our trip south from Taif to Al Baha. He had taught at King Fahd airbase before, as well as at other locations in Saudi Arabia. He was British, but his liberal politics didn’t mesh with the Thatcher or...
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I take out my map and after locating the relevant placemarks, draw a straight line between Holland and Singapore. Apparently, closing the shortest distance between us requires me to swim a large...
From The Woman Who Never Cooked by Mary L. Tabor, Mid-List Press, 2006; previously published by Chelsea. Mary Tabor is the inaugural grand prize winner of the SFWP Literary Awards Program. ——- Ruth had found one silver earring lying on her bureau, opened...
You meet her in Paris. You’re 23, a beautiful age, and you’re waiting for the people and the place and someone with whom you’ll fall in love to change your life and you haven’t realized that every day, every second, your life has just changed, but still you go on...
Hank dropped a Tylenol and then some tablets for his blood pressure. He chased it down with leftover Jim Beam mixed with yesterday’s cold coffee. Hank looked at a brochure. It read: “No matter how difficult a problem you face, there is a solution. Talk to me first,...
