Enfield Arts

Andrew didn’t want to do this. He wanted to be at home, where he knew Olivia was cooking steak. Steak. But here he was, on his way into the New Winslow Historical Society, because Iris had begged him to. He wasn’t even quite sure what he was looking for, so he knew that he was […]

Olivia woke up the next morning with nothing on her schedule. Normally at this time, she’d be getting up and getting dressed. Then she’d apply her makeup, and brace herself for another day at Keegan’s. But that wasn’t going to happen. She was never going back to Keegan’s again. But that didn’t stop her from […]

Two extra people were probably too much for her mother. Cleo knew that. But if Noah and Olivia were going to be helping her out some until the insurance coverage kicked in, they needed to come over to the house first. So she’d finally gotten her mom to agree to a visit. Andrew was working, […]

Aidan had a cookie in his mouth with maybe half of it actually getting eaten. The rest was falling in chewy chunks down his puffy red baby jacket and onto the wooden bench where he was pressed up against Roman in order to stay balanced. Roman had his own heavy coat on as he put […]

A few hours later, Cleo was sitting on the recliner in Olivia’s living room, watching with rapt attention as Olivia told the story of how she’d quit Keegan’s that day. She seemed to have shaken off the anxiety that had been evident when Cleo got there and Cleo suspected that the second glass of wine […]

Cleo was sitting at the kitchen table with her mother in her mom’s tiny single-wide mobile home, trying to stay patient as she explained, for the fifth time at least, what her visit schedule for the week was going to be. “I’m working tomorrow night, so I won’t be here,” she said yet again. “But […]

Olivia wanted to be the one to tell Noah what had happened. He was working at the Christmas tree lot today, so there was a good chance he’d run into Charlie when Charlie got off work. And if he heard it first from Charlie, she couldn’t control the story. So as soon as she’d finished […]

Olivia didn’t have service on her cell phone in the parking lot or for most of the drive home. So if Bret was furiously trying to call her, it didn’t matter. But she didn’t care. Olivia could hardly believe she’d just done that. She’d just quit Keegan’s. Was she insane? Not that it mattered, because […]

A few hours later, Olivia walked in the front door of Keegan’s Pub. It was freezing outside, and the dining room didn’t feel much warmer as she walked in. Hugh and Charlie were sitting in a booth in the empty room and as they turned to her, her stomach sank at their expressions. “What now?” […]

(Content Note for sex talk and trauma) Noah had planned to go straight up to his own apartment when he got home a little while later. But as he was walking in, Olivia’s front door opened and Andrew walked out. Noah stopped short, but apparently still caught Andrew off guard as he turned around and […]