He was there again: the new man. Crouched on his haunches, as usual, smoke curling from a cigarette held lightly between two fingers, eyes n...

  Esther could never remember her mother’s funeral with any clarity or detail. It was as if that night, while sleeping, the day was erased f...

As the school day drew to a close, Miss Finch continued her reading of Carrie’s War. Esther was captivated by the book and the adventures of...

 The May morning after learning of her mother’s death, Esther woke and found their one-eared cat, Bakewell on her bed. He was a shaggy black...