After the misery of last week’s storm, fall weather is set to deliver relief from summer’s unrelenting, steamy grip. Even the mention of the word “autumn” can produce flutters of giddy anticipation while we endure the last gasp of Florida’s heat and humidity. Over the summer months, Marilyn Myerson prompted her imaginative writing group to consider a one-word theme: autumn. Here is what one of her new writers and she came up with. — Editors
My name is Autumn. I’ve always loved that name. My sisters are named Spring and Summer. I wonder if my mother was happy when we were born when she named us, or if the names didn’t take much thought…
— Donna Sheinberg
Autumn zephyrs flow through the branches of the trees, lifting their spirits, caressing them with a lover’s touch…
— Marilyn Myerson
