Enfield Arts

Edie looked nervous as Cleo walked into the now-familiar apartment. “Everything okay?” she asked, lowering her head to give Edie a quick kiss. “Yeah, everything’s great!” Edie said quickly. “I was just going to have some cheese and crackers. Want some?” “Sure.” “Go sit down, sit!” Cleo yawned widely as Edie darted toward the kitchen […]

“Look, you may not give a shit, but we do.” Andrew couldn’t remember a time he’d ever been this angry at Noah. All he’d planned on doing was bringing the garbage out to the side yard. But then he’d nearly tripped over Noah as the other man was sitting in the grass in the backyard, […]

Tuesday night and Cleo and Edie were stretched out on the couch in Edie’s living room. Tonight was Cleo’s night off and originally Edie had been planning to drive out to Boston to see her. But then Cleo had wanted to go to New Winslow and stop in on her mom to see how things […]

“Thank you again, Iris. You’re saving me hours of aggravation right now.” Iris looked up from the spray bottle she was capping off as Celine walked back out to the dining room. She shrugged a little. “No problem,” she said. “It’s my job.” “Still, I appreciate it,” Celine said. “I was planning to do energy […]

Olivia stood in line at the New Winslow House of Pizza, wondering if this was a mistake. It was one thing to talk ghosts when neither of them were working and both in a neutral place. It was an entirely different thing when she was invading Celine’s workplace. Not to talk right now, she tried […]

“How is it going?” Iris looked up from her notes to see Missy coming into the parlor with a sweating pitcher of water. She set down her pen on the side table as Missy picked up Iris’s empty glass and refilled it. “Thank you,” Iris said, taking the water gratefully. Though the shades and the […]

It was Hugh’s third week at Keegan’s and already things were running more smoothly than they had in months. Olivia knew she should feel some sort of conflict about this, like maybe she’s being disloyal to Noah by being so enthusiastic about Hugh. But honestly, Hugh was a huge upgrade. He was sober, nice to […]

The plants were dying in their containers. Noah had picked them up at the hardware store a couple days earlier as a kind of peace offering for Olivia. She’d mentioned a while back that it might be nice to have a garden one of these summers. But after one attempt at lifting a shovel to […]

There was something in the shop this time. Celine could feel it the second she stepped through the door, a sharp, piercing feeling in the air. The work area was still overheated from the oven, but there was a chill in the room that seemed to cut into her soul. This wasn’t Roman copping an […]

Cleo knocked on her mother’s door, two short, efficient raps. Then, without waiting for a response, she turned the knob and stepped inside. “Hi Mom!” she called as she stepped into the tiny mobile home. “Who’s there?” her mother called from the living room. Cleo stopped with one shoe half-off, her moderately good mood already […]