Incoming or Outgoing? Elyse Takes and Makes a Call
Jenny Page The air outside is oddly unsettled. I walk down Walnut, toward Mother and Daddy’s house. I’m not sure how much longer I can take being there, but I’m not sure…
Elyse Hughes Rossie, Social Worker
When Elephants in the Room are Not Republican or Democrat
I don’t care for politics. I can remember when Bernie was still reporting for the Dispatch. He’d come home after covering a Town Hall meeting at 10 o’clock, blood boiling,…
Elyse Accepts a Path Not Yet Taken – or Wanted
It’s a warm, dewy morning outside. I decide to walk the five blocks to Shirley’s real estate office for our meeting. I admire the beautiful riverbanks in the early light,…
Elyse Goes In … for the Win
Gunnar Olafsson My campaign to get Shirley elected mayor seems to have gotten off to a rather dubious start. Most of my current effort has been spent trying to recruit more people…
Elyse Shifts Her Focus from Carson Toward Democracy
I’m second-guessing myself. Did I make the right decision about Carson’s house? Carson entrusted me to sell it but my best effort has been spectacularly unsuccessful. Word got out about…
My Name is Elyse and I’ve Had Enough
I’m tired, both emotionally and physically. Carson and I had been an “item” for awhile, in case you’re just tuning in. We spent a lot of time together. I was…
An Intermission in the Fourth Act
I am alarmed. I am upset. I can’t believe what’s in front of me. I manage to finagle some information from Mercury regarding the investigation, but not much. She is…
Elyse, Chablis, and Landmines
I am tired, but I need noise. Anonymity is not an option around here, as we all know. I need people around me I don’t know. I don’t want to…
Elyse Evolves Her Interview Strategy on the Fly
The beginning of everything in my family is my mother. What was the name of that movie? Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. That’s Mother. One last twist of the knife,…
“Father’s gone.”
My mother was inconsolable. The cat had escaped into the rainy night 12 hours earlier and, when he hadn’t returned by daybreak, she, of course, called me. “You’re the one…