“Certain European Movies” “They were trying to find the beach from the guidebook.” August 25, 2022 “The Façade Renovation That’s Going Well” “The third virtual meeting was cancelled, and, a day later, scaffolding went up.” August 18, 2022 “Snowstorm” “She worried about me all alone on campus. She worried about me in the dead of winter. She worried about me living so far away, alone in America.” August 11, 2022 “Replacement Grandparent” “Could she find someone to care if the baby had had a fever for five days, and to ask questions, and to check in?” August 4, 2022 “Soft Sculpture” “ ‘A little tortoise,’ Ilka said. ‘Eine kleine Schildkröte . I called it my Kröterl . That was the week of the Hitler takeover.’ ” July 28, 2022 “Beyond Nature” “The wheels of the car were pointing upward, as if the world had been turned on its head.” July 21, 2022 “Live a Little” “Her husband has to frown because he notices his wife frown and because all the members of his family, it seems to him, are acting sad or are actually sad.” July 14, 2022 “A Triangle” “I knew the couple must have liked each other. They stared like children and kissed on the corners of their lips, and I knew.” July 7, 2022 Around the Corner You Can’t See Around “What does it tell us about who we are that we are tenderly intrigued by an imaginary person walking through an old photograph?” September 9, 2021 Gravity “She wanted to feel sorry for the neighbor and say how horrible it was and how she must have really been suffering, but all that came out was anger.” September 2, 2021
