Alexandra Loeb

Alexandra Loeb was born in Gainesville, Georgia, and spent most of her adult life in Seattle working at Microsoft as an executive. She now lives in the small town of Rossland, BC. She was recently published in Kootenay Living Magazine and is focusing her nerdy brain writing fiction and nonfiction.

The Black Phone

Carolyn drew a deep breath and tried to ready herself for her mother’s invasion. It was a damp spring Saturday morning and as she stood on the top of the brick steps of her front porch, drinking tea from her favorite handle-less mug, she looked at the wet cherry tree blossoms on the stairs and wished she had felt well enough to sweep them off yesterday.