Laura Zinn Fromm teaches fiction and creative nonfiction workshops, edits books and runs writing retreats through her business, Sweet Lab Writing Workshops. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Huffington Post, Brevity Blog, Eat, Darling, Eat, The Forward, The Girlfriend, and The Opiate. She is the author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking & Coping and is writing a short story collection, Happy Together.
Mindy offers to come. Husband offers to watch our kids. Mom offers to help. She and Dad haven’t been in the same room since Josh’s bris six months ago. Dad tried to murder himself three months ago. By that I mean: he stabbed himself in the chest in the front seat of his powder-blue Mercedes. I suspect Mom views him… Read more →