The first thing Jane knew about it was a flash in the sky. A small flash in a clear blue winter’s sky, followed by a shower of condensation trails. It looked like a backwards firework, she thought as she watched the various …
Elena giggles as a gorilla bear stares in bewilderment at her tambourine talents, still excitable, even after all these years, by even the slightest of attentions. I stand beside her like I have for a decade now, looking as regal …
The wind chimes were driving Lucas crazy. He was watching an old Perry Mason show on his TV when Perry swung around and pointed his finger at the old lady in the gallery. The wind chimes on the Lucas’ porch …
“What can I get you?” Max the bartender said. “Will you be needing a menu?”
Alan Furlong thought long and hard about what he was going to say, and then he said it, but by then the situation had changed …
She was now a memsahib, the youngest in the battalion.
The service wife, she was told, must institute a homelike atmosphere for her man and her progeny. “She must adjust herself to the community as she finds it.”
The community …
Language report 2019 -2119
During the last hundred yrs great progress has bin made in American Language. This essay will kover the trends and landmarks of that period.
The drivers of the changes were 2 movements. 1 went under the banner “If …
My father was asleep in his chair, his head bowed over a book balancing on his lap. I watched him from the doorway, watched the book sliding down his lap and crashing onto the floor. He jolted awake.
I watched his …
Sally Knaak, (the “k” is silent, why?) had so many questions about life, about boys, about adults, about sex, about the life cycle of a cicada. No one seemed to have solid answers to questions, especially the one she asked …
This is how it will happen. Wearing black, I will slip on gloves of the softest, supplest leather, then I’ll soundlessly turn my key in the lock. He never bothers to slip the bolts. The lock will be silent because …
The office had almost completely left my mind, replaced with memories of sightseeing and relaxing on the beach. My kids and I got to see the Blue Jays beat the Yankees while my wife, who didn’t care about baseball, spent some …