I heard them coming down the walkway beside the house. A man and a woman. They laughed loudly and without embarrassment. I wondered for a moment if I should rush back inside my apartment. But it was my backyard, I reminded myself. I was not the one who should have been embarrassed …
Bio:
D.D. Miller is the author of two books, and his writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies. He is an English and writing professor at Humber College in Toronto where he also acts as an editor at the Humber Literary Review and coordinates the academic programming at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. He is of mixed settler and Nbisiing Anishinaabe descent and is a member of Nipissing First Nation.