Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
Mickey Hadick 
When I was a kid, Geauga Lake Amusement Park was a little slice of heaven. It had coasters, live entertainment, and games of chance. It was about an hour drive and as the ferris wheel and roller coaster came into view, our excitement spiked. It was our one and only fun thing of the year! … Read more
So a friend died this week. She was a wonderful person who was just barely 50 but caught a bad break with a rare disease. It just stinks. It stinks for her husband and her son. It stinks for her family. It stinks for her friends. But those of us who knew Carmen will think … Read more
Tax season was a little rough for me this year. I got it all done but it’s not a chore I relish. I try not to think about it all year which means I scramble to find this piece of paper or that, so I’d be better off if I had a weekly habit of … Read more
My wife, who is retired from the work force, tends to stay up late. Most nights, I stay up later than I should through sympathetic response. Like when you drive past people outside an ice cream store licking a cone, and decide you’d like ice cream; or maybe you see someone robbing a bank and … Read more
The Sunday before last, as I drove to pickleball in the morning, my car slid on some ice and hit another car. It was something of a perfect storm as the car I hit was a commercial-grade flatbed truck and the corner of the flatbed rolled up the hood of my car like it was … Read more