STORIES & ESSAYS
SHORT STORIES
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You’re Too Smart For That
A woman in her 30s gives instructional advice about romantic relationships.
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Banging on Doors
When the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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Waiting for Lena
An 82-year-old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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It’s not what you think
A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
ESSAYS
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The Make-Up Chair
A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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Belongings
Soon after a friend has passed away, a woman vacillates about keeping, and wearing some of the friend’s belongings.
“Janet Flora’s work, rooted in our contemporary world and its emotions, has the grace, power and resonance of writers like Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers and James Salter. Flora, like these masters, tells stories in plain, simple and evocative prose.”
Paul Batista
Author of “Death’s Witness”