Sam Spring

"You lay your head on my lap / and soak in the strawberry lemonade sky, / sipping the last long day of June / out of your glass."

Leslie Grollman

"Wincing, she wonders if this is the Eurydice scene she didn’t get to play on stage long ago; her drama-queen days traded for sensibility."

Dave Fromm

"The sophomore girls clump together in their baggy fits, koala bears laughing, tumbling into the back of someone’s mom’s SUV.  It’s all still ahead for them."

Steve Gerson

"She wondered if he'd get an oil strike, wondered if he'd come back flush, though he never had, wondered if he'd come back at all.  Hoping he wouldn't."

Leslie Grollman

"On weekends, your home verves with friends in and out of bathing suits or gossip. Barbecues, teas and your famous lemon sponge. There is laughter and splashing."