Tag: Chautauqua

Making Room

Eve DeBardeleben Roebuck6 Comments

She got out of the car and loaded my suitcase in the trunk, a whoosh of stale cigarette smoke and ash exhaling with her, as if the car itself were trying to get a fresh breath of air. Debra, the Uber driver, slunk in behind the wheel, her head down, shoulders slumped. My goal was… Continue reading Making Room

Chautauqua

Eve DeBardeleben Roebuck41 Comments

I hadn't really wanted to get up when the alarm went off, but I did because she'd asked me to come.  This was the daughter who'd recently begun to like me again, and I wasn't going to miss it. Josie Love was in art school for the summer and had invited me for her mid-summer… Continue reading Chautauqua