Other Lives by Lucy Sieger: From the book’s spine, an enigmatic dark-haired woman engages me with her smoky gaze. She has stenciled brows, kohl-lined eyes and a beauty mark; she is dangling a cigarette, of course. She is my alter ...

Other Lives by Meg Beach: I’m five-foot nothing in my stocking feet. If you need a visual, I’m the same height—although not nearly the same width—as Danny DeVito. I never really thought of myself as short until just a few ...

Other Lives: Maybe it was all those Harleys rolling into the campground. I mean, I’ve had small realizations seep in over the last few months and certainly moments of synchronicity surfaced when Joel and I looked at each other, wordless, ...