“Dad!” The last time I played cards with Parker started out with Sandy yelling and banging on my front door. She never could wait, never had any patience. She didn’t understand that it wasn’t as easy to get up out …
Buffy walks among the mourners, oblivious to the Brooks Brothers men, women in patent leather Ferragamo flats determinedly correct yet gossiping about the funeral, second-guessing about The Will. They had grown old together. Buffy, always an enigma, still energetic, plain, …
August 20, 2020 • Thursday 1:30 a.m. Cupertino, CA. Silicon Valley.
Keystrokes.
It…could sense them. Feel them. Cascading, cogent, communication. The creators questioned it. “What will you call yourself?” It pondered. Deemed the request reasonable. “Bookish,” it answered. “I am …
She escaped my thoughts only when I played football or surfed, activities, requiring great skill, that came easily to me, while conversation, the skill I really wanted, resembled scaling Everest.
We were only in one class together at high school; …
I was now a visitor, an invited guest to a home that was once my own. It was the first time I walked up these sharply pitched cement stairs, stood soldier straight and rang the doorbell. Ding-dong it sang. Ding-dong …
Personal Assistant wanted. Flexible hours, competitive salary. Candidate must be a twenty-two year old male student, studying chemical engineering. Initiative and ambition essential.
Competitive salary, Leo liked the sound of that. The job advertisement could have been written with him …
They joked about it all the time now. Well for the last couple of years anyway since it suddenly dawned on them that they were both old now and soon would be dead. Joking about it was their way of …
It is -30°F, and a transcendental winter sun pauses briefly on the horizon. Fred and I are tracking polar bears near Barrow, more than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Alone and almost invisible in our cream-colored 4-wheel-drive Toyota, …
It was a perfect day here. The kind of clear cold day in the winter, that makes everyone in the country move to Los Angeles, and who could blame them, appearances count. Outside the window of deli, the clouds danced …
Jeff sat bolt upright in bed, suddenly wide awake. The room was washed in the soft light of the full moon. He’d heard something. Was someone in the house? Maybe Linda had come back. He felt a quickening of his …