There once was a time when the adventure of moving to start over was a source of inspiration and excitement for Kitty. This time around...

Kitty's forty-fifth birthday was quite the day. That morning she found in her email an invitation to interview for the corporate job that...

Her trip with Stafford had been the needed escape Kitty was looking for. She had almost forgotten the whole ordeal with Gavin or the...

The enrollment process is much quicker when you can pay your tuition in cash, as Kitty found out. Gavin was highly eager to have "his...

Weeks became months and before long it was Guy's second birthday. Gavin had returned to work, Opal not so much. The woman was a pest, but...

Stafford had made a good offer when they spoke about it. Years ago, he had bought back Sandy's old house. He and Marnie had renovated the...

On the eve of her twenty-seventh birthday, Kitty found herself in bed with Gavin at her apartment. Although they had been a couple for...

Her community college graduation was a minor ceremony for Kitty, yet all of her friends were there to cheer her on. As a college senior...

The Greyhound trip had been further than Kitty had ever traveled before, but when Kitty stepped off the bus on that muggy Chicago summer...

Kitty was set to be finished at the community college as scheduled by the next year. With time drawing along, she saw Stafford now and...

That summer consisted mainly of Kitty learning the odds and ends of campus life. She was still an undeclared major, but that was not a...

The bus had arrived earlier than expected to the campus. The students slowly walked out into the sunshine of the late spring day. The...

The first time that Stafford asked about Sandy's will was over dinner on a rainy April night. He had been hinting at it here and there,...

Every weekend after Sandy's fall, Stafford would drop in to check on his grandmother. He openly tried to convince Sandy to fire Kitty in...

That morning Sandy got out of bed in her night dress. Then, she walked down her steps passing all of her framed pictures mounted on the...

With winter pushing along, Sandy found that she was starting to enjoy Kitty's company. Still, it was odd that Kitty never did anything...

Throughout the weekend Kitty took a few bus trips to her now abandoned apartment to ease the awkward moments between her and Sandy. That...

It was eight o'clock in the evening when Kitty called Sandy Brown's home number to schedule a job interview. Mrs. Brown had been half...

With either her brisk stride or her slouching posture, it was as if Kitty were showing the world she felt less than everyone around her....