A light-hearted story I wrote before the pandemic, when we could meet old friends or a new love and clink our wine glasses together over dinner . . . . RITA & MANNY I slather sunblock on my arms and legs and pull my straw hat down firmly onto my head. I expect to mess up my T-shirt and shorts with dirt and my knees…
After I graduated Boston College Law School in 1971, I worked in a courthouse in my home state of New Jersey. During that year, I became engaged to Paul and planned to return to Massachusetts to get married the next summer. We didn’t believe in diamond rings or formal weddings and kept our plans low key, unpublicized. Unbeknownst to me, the young, legally blind prosecutor…
Readers, if you have not yet read Part One or Part Two, you will find the story of Anthony and Nadine at these links on my blog: LOVER’S LEAP (Part One of a Short Story) LOVER’S LEAP (Part Two of a Short Story) THERE GOES MY MIRACLE (Bruce Springsteen) When she completed her clerkship at the end of June, Nadine felt oddly adrift in New…
If you have not yet read Part One, you will find it at this link: LOVER’S LEAP (Part One of a Short Story) DREAMS OF LOVE Nadine was due to complete her one year clerkship for Judge Halliday at the end of June. He offered to write her as many letters of recommendation as she needed. She appreciated how easy he made it for her. He…
MEETING ANTHONY Nadine surveyed the grand vista of the courtroom, paneled and wainscoted in carved mahogany, the jury box to the left, prosecution and defense tables in the center. Classic marble columns on the right separated the row of windows reaching to the ceiling. The American flag stood behind her, the seal of the State of New Jersey on another flag within her peripheral vision.…