Negotiating Paradise

He is behind bars again. These words alight in Lise’s mind like the kettle on the stove singing its mad bird song. A thought that arrives from a storage of RAM in a remote location of her head, What if …

Nothing happens for a day. I spend the morning and afternoon pacing. My sandaled feet patrol the maroon and blue carpet until bored by the monotony—glossy double doors of surgery, empty nursery, nurses station bordered by a circular counter and …

“The Hanson case shows no apparent infection, but both the medical examiner and leading investigator specialized in SIDS cases assert the evidence verified a minor respiratory infection in the infant and his parents may have known, however the daycare in …