Across the Street: What Happened When Amanda Walked Home at Eleven at Night
The blue light of my smartphone cast a sharp, cold square across the kitchen counter, showing the exact...
Author: Katherine C. Lund
The Shattered Glass of Vance Mansion: What Two Milk Teeth Cost My Family
The heavy walnut door of the grand study had been closed for forty minutes before the sound came,...
The Sanctuary Floor: What My Thirty-One Years at Grace Chapel Cost Leo
The smell of instant coffee and stale powdered creamer always hung heavy in the fellowship hall around eleven...
The Cost of Hospitality: Why My Daughter-In-Law Handed Me a Two-Thousand-Dollar Invoice
The envelope sitting right beside the butter dish had my name written across the front in Melissa’s sharp,...
The Fourth Name on the Brass Plaque: Why My Fourteen Thousand Dollar Loan Denial Started in 1974
The loan officer looked about twenty-five, and he told me I had insufficient credit history for a fourteen-thousand-dollar...
The Twelve-Dollar Promise: What My Late Husband Left in the Pharmacy Ledger Seven Years Ago
The linoleum under my kitchen table has always had a faint scratch near the left leg where Arthur’s...
The Weight of What He Saved: Why My Brothers Took the Land While I Got the Shoeboxes
The heavy cardboard shoebox had a greasy thumbprint right over the corner where the label had peeled away...
The Green Key Tag Inside Maya’s Pencil Pouch That Exposed an Illicit Bus Driver Ring
My thumb was resting against the small brass latch of the front screen door when I noticed the...
What the Nurse Heard While My Doctor Said It Was Just Age
I got it completely wrong for eight months, believing that the heavy, dragging fatigue in my legs and...
The Debt in the Envelope: What Pastor Maddox’s Pay Stub Taught Me About Twelve Years of Grace
The cedar floorboards of the Grace Community Church administrative office always had a dry, hollow pop whenever I...