Peggy, a New Yorker from an Irish-Catholic family, is living in a nursing home and struggling with dementia. Once a key decision-maker at a top Wall Street firm, she considers the place life has taken her to be humiliating, beneath her dignity. And so she resists. But she’s no longer in charge. She’s no longer respected. She fears sometimes she’s not even seen. The connections she once had—to power, to people who mattered—are no more than memories, replaced now by the haunting presence of siblings long gone, the people who know her secrets. Peggy’s one remaining connection is to Nora, her niece, but the true nature of that connection has been hidden from the start. “Because Her Hour Is Come,” one of the stories you’ll find in That Very Place, takes you directly into the torment of a terrible mistake—and the pain of realizing that it can’t be corrected. The story first appeared in The Massachusetts Review. I hope you enjoy this little taste of it.
Meet Peggy, from THAT VERY PLACE
