by debrakennedy_34qzmr | Jun 16, 2024 | Continuing Story
The Marriage of True Minds We sleep in separate bedrooms now and text to communicate. I won’t get within six feet of him, but I’m not leaving, nor is he, now that we both know our true minds. It started with an earworm. A couple of weeks ago I was weeding one of the...
by debrakennedy_34qzmr | Aug 23, 2024 | Continuing Story
Minding Murder Barefoot in my nightgown, I stand at the window, staring at the deserted pre-dawn street. The red glow of ambulance lights pulses across silent lawns and sleeping houses. I squeeze my eyes shut and open them again. No, I’m not dreaming. And as the...
by debrakennedy_34qzmr | Sep 6, 2024 | Continuing Story
Power Play “Ready?” Bob asks. He is beside me in the driver’s seat. It takes my brain an extra split second to register the unfamiliar face. Just before we left home, he’d shaved off the long, grey, pandemic beard that made him look like a member of ZZ Top. He looks...
by debrakennedy_34qzmr | Oct 15, 2024 | Continuing Story
Kamakura A tinny voice echoes through the vaults of YVR, announcing that our flight to Tokyo is yet again delayed, drawing groans from our fellow passengers seated with us at gate E83. A wave of thoughts floods into my mind before I can block it: Oh, for Chrissakes!...
by debrakennedy_34qzmr | Dec 3, 2024 | Continuing Story
Ikebukuro Let me start by saying that Bob and I did not intend to lose our granddaughter in the middle of Tokyo during a national emergency, even though she was behaving like an enfant terrible. We were just trying to get some rest. How could we have known what...
