Toothbrushing
by Samantha Steiner issue 74 At six thirty, we push blankets off, pull sweaters on, and shuffle to the bathroom. He squeezes toothpaste onto my brush before getting his own. “Can we turn the lights off?” I ask. “Why?” “The light hurts my eyes.” He gets the switch. We click our brushes together like champagne […]
The Empathy Chart
by Wendy J. Fox issue 74 You and I were at a party somewhere when we first met, and we had to talk about the weather, as people do. We were living in Denver, Colorado, where the mountains let out their breath and bled into the plains, and we’d long since come to accept, if […]