May 2014 – Page 2 – Paigespace

Debbie Simms turned fourteen the year that her father died and she got fat. That is how she would always remember it: the year my...

I started this manuscript when I was twenty-two, living alone in a teeny efficiency apartment and teaching high school. Trying to be a grown...

This little story started in a park in 2010. I was watching my kids play, I was warm in the sun and a little...

Three years ago, I had more counter space. The counter wasn’t that big to begin with, and now roughly a fifth of it is...

She had a pair of white leather boots with fringe around the top, and she wore eye shadow. We were in seventh grade. I...

I wrote this for a contest in Real Simple a year ago, and then forgot to send it. The question was: when did you...

Victoria and Jane lived in the same neighborhood on the very same street, just three houses apart. They were very best friends. Victoria’s room...