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Susan Buttenwieser

Susan is a writer living in New York City and has written for 3am, Ms, Oxygen and Gotham Gazette.

Christmas Eve

[ fiction - december 03 ]

All day George lies by the toilet, throwing up and crying, or sleeping in the darkened bedroom. "Daddy," the small, high voice of Minnie calls out occasionally from the other side of the door. And then he hears his wife, Karen, leading her away.

Smoldering

[ fiction - june 03 ]

"Things start the way they always do. It is Labor Day and Edie and Nick are having a late afternoon barbecue, not so much because they have any particular feelings about the holiday, but they like to have an excuse for a party and Labor Day is as good enough a reason as anything else."