Posts by Tara Layne

May 23, 2026 | Nonfiction

Someone Else's Flowers

Tara Layne

“The Upper East Side. For uncreative rich people who don't know the first thing about being happy,” Mom said, and I believed her.

May 12, 2025 | Nonfiction

Rewriting Sentences

Tara Layne

We shouldn’t have become friends. Everything about our separate lives suggested we wouldn’t meet—me in the comfort of my sunny Los Angeles home, framed by blue skies, and Frank confined by barbed wire

February 21, 2024 | Nonfiction

The Mourning After

Tara Layne

I haven’t had a sip of water in days. I scan the colorful, exotic flowers that fill the twenty eighth floor apartment. The view overlooks the Hudson River in New York City, and the lazy, muddy water