Tag: stories

• Milford Dispatches No. 7 – The Bagel

  

  All Evelynna wanted was a bagel.

  Chelsea Carolyn

  January 24, 2026

  Milford Dispatches

  1950s, fiction, grief, historical fiction, housewife, Jewish, milforddispatch, Short story, stories, suburbia

• Milford Dispatches No. 6 – A Triptych of Intimacy

  

  Somewhat more serious than my others. Still comical with a little mischief.  Evelynna navigates intimacy in three facets of life, the Chicago Bears win the game, and the DeLancys attend Sunday Mass.  Part 1 – The Wash “Evelynna, does your husband ever wash his own laundry?” Isadora inquired. She stood behind a checkered ironing board…

  Chelsea Carolyn

  January 13, 2026

  Milford Dispatches

  1950s, bdsm, fiction, historical fiction, housewife, milforddispatch, Short story, stories, suburbia

• Dispatch No. 5 — The Spy

  Part 1 – Inspiration  The oven timer clattered. Evelynna DeLancy, wearing a black cocktail dress and a white apron, splattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas, rushed to slide a golden glistening chicken out of the oven followed by six steamy whole potatoes. She got to work carving and stuffing the jackets with sour cream and…

  Chelsea Carolyn

  December 8, 2025

  Milford Dispatches

  1950s, bdsm, fiction, historical fiction, housewife, milforddispatch, Short story, stories, suburbia